Why we Testify

I compiled this list of verses from a sermon by Skip Ast, Pastor at West Valley Bible Church of Surprise, AZ. Take special note of Proverbs 24:11-12 - Cliff

 

New American Standard Bible – why we testify

 

Psalm 35:28 
And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness
         And Your praise all day long.

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
         Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.  

Psalm 71:15

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
         And of  Your salvation all day long;
         For I do not know the sum of them.

Psalm 96:2 

Sing to the LORD, bless His name;
         Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.

Proverbs 24:11-12

11 Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
         And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.
12 If you say, “See, we did not know this,”
         Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts?
         And does He not know it who keeps your soul?
         And will He not render to man according to his work?

Isaiah 42:12 
Let them give glory to the LORD
         And declare His praise in the coastlands.

Isaiah 43:21 
The people whom I formed for Myself
         Will declare My praise.

Matthew 5:13 

 You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

Luke 24:44-48

44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

 46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,

 47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

 48″You are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:8

but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

1 Peter 2:9

But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

1 John 1:2

 And the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us–