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Act 23:3 — Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

God		God did smite him in a remarkable manner; for about five years after this, after his house had been reduced to ashes, in a tumult raised by his own son, he was besieged and taken in the royal palace; where having attempted in vain to hide himself, he was dragged out and slain.
thou whited		Mat 23:27,28
for		Lev 19:35; Psa 58:1,2; Psa 82:1,2; Psa 94:20; Ecc 3:16; Amo 5:7; Mic 3:8-11
smitten		Deu 25:1,2; Jhn 7:51; Jhn 18:24

Correlating Passages

thou whited

	Mat 23:27	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.
	Mat 23:28	Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

for

	Lev 19:35	Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
	Psa 58:1	[[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.]] Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
	Psa 58:2	Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
	Psa 82:1	[[A Psalm of Asaph.]] God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
	Psa 82:2	How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
	Psa 94:20	Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
	Ecc 3:16	And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.
	Amo 5:7	Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
	Mic 3:8	But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
	Mic 3:9	Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
	Mic 3:10	They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
	Mic 3:11	The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

smitten

	Deu 25:1	If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
	Deu 25:2	And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
	Jhn 7:51	Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
	Jhn 18:24	Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

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Scott, Thomas. "Acts 23:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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