Roman Empire, The

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• John 18:40 NT

  Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

• John 19:10 NT

  Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”

• Acts 25:11 NT

  For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

• Acts 25:12 NT

  Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

• Acts 26:32 NT

  Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

• Acts 22:28 NT

  The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”

• Acts 16:37 NT

  But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

• Acts 16:38 NT

  The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

• Acts 22:25 NT

  When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

• 1 Corinthians 4:9 NT

  For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

• 1 Corinthians 15:32 NT

  If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

• 1 Corinthians 9:24 NT

  Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

• Philippians 2:16 NT

  holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

• Philippians 3:11-14 NT

  if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I…

• Hebrews 12:1 NT

  Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

• Hebrews 12:2 NT

  looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Ephesians 6:12 NT

  For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

• 1 Corinthians 9:25 NT

  Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

• 1 Corinthians 9:27 NT

  but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

• Philippians 3:14 NT

  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

• 2 Timothy 2:5 NT

  Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

• Luke 3:1 NT

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of…

• Acts 11:28 NT

  One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

• Philippians 4:22 NT

  All the saints greet you, especially those who are of Caesar’s household.