Provision for Priests and Levites
(1 Corinthians 9:1–18)
The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the offerings made by fire to the LORD; that is their inheritance. Deu 10:9Num 18:8-91Co 9:13-14Deu 12:19Jos 13:14Jos 13:33Num 18:20Num 26:62 Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them. 1Pe 2:51Pe 2:9Gen 15:1Isa 61:6Lam 3:24Psa 119:57Psa 16:5Psa 73:24-26
This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach. Lev 7:30-34Deu 12:27 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock. 2Ch 31:4-10Exo 22:29Exo 23:19Lev 23:10Lev 23:17Neh 12:44-47Num 18:12-24Deu 26:9-10 For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time. Deu 10:8Num 3:10Deu 17:12Exo 28:1-14Num 16:5Num 16:9-10Num 17:5-9Num 25:13
Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose, Num 35:2-3Deu 12:51Pe 5:21Ti 3:1Deu 16:2Psa 26:8Psa 27:4Psa 63:1-2 then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD. 2Ch 31:2-4 They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate. Neh 12:44Neh 12:472Ch 31:4Luk 10:71Co 9:7-141Ti 5:17-18Lev 7:14Lev 7:8-9
Sorcery Forbidden
(Acts 8:9–25)
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Deu 12:29-31Lev 18:26-27Lev 18:30 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, 1 practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, Lev 19:31Exo 22:18Lev 19:262Ch 33:6Act 19:19Deu 12:311Ch 10:131Sa 28:9 casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. 1Sa 28:11-14Lev 19:31 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you. Lev 18:24Deu 9:4Lev 18:27
You must be blameless before the LORD your God. Gen 17:1Mat 5:48Gen 6:9Job 1:1Job 1:8Php 3:12Psa 37:37Php 3:15 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. Act 14:16Deu 18:10Gen 20:6Psa 147:19-20
A Prophet Like Moses
(Acts 3:11–26)
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him. 2 Act 3:22-23Act 7:37Jhn 1:45Deu 18:18-19Heb 1:1-2Luk 9:35Mat 17:5Jhn 6:29 This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb 3on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!” Exo 20:19Deu 9:10Deu 5:23-28Heb 12:19
Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well. Deu 5:28 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. Jhn 12:49-50Jhn 8:28Deu 18:15Jhn 4:25Jhn 17:8Luk 24:19Isa 51:16Jhn 1:45 And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name. 4 Act 3:22-23Heb 2:3Heb 12:25-26Heb 10:26Heb 3:7Mrk 16:16 But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.” Deu 13:1-5Jer 27:15Ezk 13:6Jer 23:13-15Jer 23:31Jer 28:15-17Mat 7:15Zec 13:3
You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?” 1Jn 4:1-31Th 5:24Rev 2:2 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. Deu 18:202Ki 20:1Jer 28:1-17Deu 13:1-2Jon 4:2Zec 1:5-6Isa 41:22Pro 26:2