Psalms 37:6
37:6 He will vindicate you in broad daylight,
and publicly defend your just cause.
Micah 7:9
7:9 I must endure the Lord’s anger,
for I have sinned against him.
But then he will defend my cause,
and accomplish justice on my behalf.
He will lead me out into the light;
I will experience firsthand his deliverance.
Malachi 3:18
3:18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between
the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
Acts 11:2-18
11:2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem,
the circumcised believers
took issue with
him,
11:3 saying, “You went to
uncircumcised men and shared a meal with
them.”
11:4 But Peter began and explained it to them point by point,
saying,
11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision,
an object something like a large sheet descending,
being let down from heaven
by its four corners, and it came to me.
11:6 As I stared
I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles,
and wild birds.
11:7 I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; slaughter
and eat!’
11:8 But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean
has ever entered my mouth!’
11:9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider
ritually unclean!’
11:10 This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.
11:11 At that very moment,
three men sent to me from Caesarea
approached
the house where we were staying.
11:12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers
also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.
11:13 He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
11:14 who will speak a message
to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’
11:15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on
them just as he did
on us at the beginning.
11:16 And I remembered the word of the Lord,
as he used to say,
‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
11:17 Therefore if God
gave them the same gift
as he also gave us after believing
in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was I to hinder
God?”
11:18 When they heard this,
they ceased their objections
and praised
God, saying, “So then, God has granted the repentance
that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”
Acts 11:2
11:2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem,
the circumcised believers
took issue with
him,
Colossians 1:11
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of
all patience and steadfastness, joyfully