Bible Verses About Pontifex Maximus And Roman Religion

Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

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That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

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And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

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Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

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So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

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God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

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And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

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Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

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So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

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And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

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For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.

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They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

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Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

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Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

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Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

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For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

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To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

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O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

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And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

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When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.

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Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

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Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

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I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

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But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

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He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

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And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

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From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

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Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

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The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

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So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

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