Epicureans
5 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Dispute with Paul
- Acts 17:18 Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the …
Doctrines Propagated By, Familiar to Solomon
- Ecclesiastes 2:1–10 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile. …
Reject John the Baptist
- Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
- Luke 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
To Paul
- 1 Corinthians 15:32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.