Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

New American Standard Bible

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you.”

King James Version

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

Holman Bible

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

International Standard Version

As Paul talked about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became afraid and said, "For the present you may go. When I get a chance, I will send for you again."

A Conservative Version

And as he discoursed about righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment going to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, Go now, and having a convenient time, I will summon thee.

American Standard Version

And as he reasoned of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, Go thy way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I will call thee unto me.

Amplified

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control [honorable behavior, personal integrity], and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for now, and when I find [a convenient] time I will send for you.”

An Understandable Version

And as he discussed the matters of doing right, and [maintaining] self control and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified and answered, "Go on away for now; I will call you back when it is convenient for me."

Anderson New Testament

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: For the present withdraw; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.

Bible in Basic English

And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you.

Common New Testament

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you."

Daniel Mace New Testament

but as he was treating of justice, temperance, and a future judgment, Felix greatly alarm'd, said, "withdraw for the present; and when I am at leisure, I will send for you."

Darby Translation

And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

Godbey New Testament

And he reasoning concerning righteousness and temperance and the coming judgment, Felix, being alarmed, responded, Go thy way for this time; and having received an opportunity, I will call for thee:

Goodspeed New Testament

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

John Wesley New Testament

And as he reasoned concerning justice, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix being terrified, answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

King James 2000

And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient time, I will call for you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And [while] he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid [and] replied, "Go away for the present, and [when I] have an opportunity, I will summon you."

Modern King James verseion

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the Judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go for this time, but taking time later, I will call for you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And as he preached of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come; Felix trembled, and answered, "Thou hast done enough at this time: depart. When I have a convenient time, I will send for thee."

Moffatt New Testament

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

Montgomery New Testament

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

NET Bible

While Paul was discussing righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, "Go away for now, and when I have an opportunity, I will send for you."

New Heart English Bible

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

Noyes New Testament

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix became alarmed, and answered, Go thy way for the present; and when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

Sawyer New Testament

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for the present; but when I have time I will call you.

The Emphasized Bible

And, as he was reasoning of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming greatly afraid, answered - For the present, be going thy way, and, when I find an opportunity, I will send for thee, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment which is ready to be revealed, Felix being greatly terrified, replied, Go, for the present, I will some time hence take another opportunity of calling for thee.

Twentieth Century New Testament

But, while Paul was speaking at length about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified, and interrupted him--"Go for the present, but, when I find an opportunity, I will send for you again."

Webster

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, depart for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

Weymouth New Testament

But when he dealt with the subjects of justice, self-control, and the judgement which was soon to come, Felix became alarmed and said, "For the present leave me, and when I can find a convenient opportunity I will send for you."

Williams New Testament

But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."

World English Bible

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

Worrell New Testament

And, as he was reasoning about righteousness, continence, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming terrified, answered, "Go your way for the present; and, when I obtain a suitable opportunity, I will call for you;"

Worsley New Testament

And as he was reasoning of justice, temperance, and a future judgement, Felix trembled, and said, Go thy way for this time, and I will take a proper opportunity to call for thee again.

Youngs Literal Translation

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And as
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

he

Usage: 0

διαλέγομαι 
Dialegomai 
Usage: 13

of
περί 
Peri 
Usage: 254

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

ἐγκράτεια 
Egkrateia 
Usage: 4

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

κρίμα 
Krima 
Usage: 23

to
μέλλω 
mello 
shall, should, would, to come, will, things to come, not tr,
Usage: 90

ἔσομαι 
Esomai 
shall be, will be, be, shall have, shall come to pass, shall, not tr,
Usage: 83

Φῆλιξ 
Phelix 
Usage: 9

ἔμφοβος 
Emphobos 
Usage: 6

and answered
ἀποκρίνομαι 
Apokrinomai 
Usage: 231

Go thy way
πορεύομαι 
Poreuomai 
go, depart, walk, go way,
Usage: 101

νῦν 
Nun 
Usage: 102

δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

I have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

καιρός 
Kairos 
Usage: 63

I will call
μετακαλέω 
metakaleo 
Usage: 4

References

Context Readings

Paul Before Felix And Drusilla

24 And after certain days, Felix, having been present with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, sent for Paul and heard him of the faith in Christ. 25 And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee. 26 And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.



Cross References

Acts 10:42

And he enjoined us to proclaim to the people, and to testify that this is he appointed by God, Judge of the living and the dead.

Galatians 5:23

Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

2 Peter 1:6

And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion;

Acts 17:32

And having heard of the rising up of the dead, they treated with mockery; and said, We will hear thee again concerning this.

1 Samuel 12:7

And now, stand ye, and I will judge you before Jehovah, all the justices of Jehovah which he did with you and with your fathers.

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.

1 Kings 21:27

And it will be when Ahab heard these words, and he will rend his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and he will fast and lie down in sackcloth, and go softly.

1 Kings 22:26-27

And the king of Israel will say, Take Micaiah and turn him back to Amon, chief of the city, and to Joash son of the king.

2 Kings 22:19

Because thy heart was tender and thou wilt be humble from before Jehovah in thy hearing what I spake against this place, and against its inhabitants to be for desolation, and for a curse, and thou wilt rend thy garments and weep before me; and I also heard, says Jehovah.

Ezra 10:3

And now we will cut out a covenant to our God to bring forth all the wives, and those being born of them upon the counsel of my lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God; and according to the law it shall be done.

Ezra 10:9

And all the men of Judah and Benjamin will gather together at Jerusalem in three days. It was the ninth month, in the twentieth in the month, and all the people will sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling for the word, and from the heavy showers.

Job 29:14

I put on justice and it will clothe me: my judgment as an upper garment and a turban.

Psalm 11:7

For Jehovah the just loved justice; his face will behold the upright

Psalm 45:7

Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.

Psalm 50:3-4

Our God shall come, and he will not be silent: a fire shall consume before him, and it stormed greatly round about him.

Psalm 58:1-2

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?

Psalm 72:2

He shall judge thy people in justice, and thy poor in judgment.

Psalm 82:1-4

Chanting to Asaph. God stood in the assembly of God; he will judge in the midst of gods.

Psalm 99:1

Jehovah reigned, the peoples shall be moved: he dwelling in the cherubs; the earth shall quake.

Psalm 119:120

My flesh stood erect from thy fear, and I was afraid of thy judgments.

Proverbs 1:24-32

Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending;

Proverbs 6:4-5

Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes.

Proverbs 16:12

An abomination of kings to do injustice: for in justice shall the throne be prepared.

Proverbs 31:3-5

Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.

Ecclesiastes 3:16-17

And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 10:16-17

Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment

Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every thing hidden, whether good, and whether evil.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1:21

How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing

Isaiah 16:5

And the throne was set up in mercy: and he sat upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.

Isaiah 28:6-7

And for a spirit of judgment to him sitting upon the judgment, and for strength of them turning back the battle of the storm.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye careless be disturbed, ye, confident: strip and be naked, gird upon the loins.

Isaiah 41:21

Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say:

Isaiah 55:6

Seek ye Jehovah in his being found, and call him in his being near.

Isaiah 61:8

For I Jehovah love judgment, hating robbery for burnt-offering; and I gave their works in truth, and I will cut out to them an eternal covenant

Isaiah 66:2

And all these my hand made, and all these shall be, says Jehovah: and to this will I look, to the humble. and smitten of spirit, and trembling at my word.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:15-17

Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

Jeremiah 23:29

So is not my word as fire? says Jehovah; and as a hammer, it will break the rock in pieces.

Jeremiah 37:17-21

And king Zedekiah will send and take him, and the king will ask him in his house in secret, and say, Is there a word from Jehovah? and Jeremiah will say, There is: and he will say, Into the hand of the king of Babel shalt thou be given.

Jeremiah 38:14-28

And king Zedekiah will send and take Jeremiah the prophet to him to the third entrance which was in the house of Jehovah; and the king will say to Jeremiah, I ask thee a word; thou shalt not hide a word from me.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you, O princes of Israel: remove ye violence and oppression, and do judgment and justice, lift up your expulsions from off my people, says the Lord Jehovah.

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, my counsel shall be pleasant to thee, and break off thy sins by justice, and thine iniquities in compassionating the poor; if it shall be a lengthening to thy peace.

Daniel 5:1-4

Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was killed.

Daniel 12:2

And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.

Hosea 7:5

The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.

Hosea 10:4

They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

Amos 5:24

Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard and my belly will tremble; at the voice my lips quivered: rottenness will come into my bones, and I shall tremble under me that I shall rest at the day of straits: to come up to the people he will invade him.

Haggai 1:2

Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, This people said the time was not come, the time of the house of Jehovah to be built

Matthew 14:5-10

And wishing to kill him, he was afraid of the crowd, because they held John as a prophet.

Matthew 22:5

And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic:

Matthew 25:1-10

Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom.

Matthew 25:31-46

And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

Mark 6:18-24

For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Luke 13:24-25

Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Luke 17:26-29

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man.

John 16:8

And having come, he will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment:

Acts 2:37

And having heard, they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the sent, What shall we do, men, brethren?

Acts 9:6

And he trembling and amazed said, Lord, What wilt thou me to do? And the Lord to him, Arise, and come into the city, and it shall be spoken to thee what thou must do.

Acts 16:29-34

And having asked for a light, he rushed in, and being trembling, fell before Paul and Silas,

Acts 17:2

And according to custom to Paul, he went in to them, and upon three sabbaths discussed with them from the writings,

Acts 17:13

And when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that also in Berea the word of God was announced by Paul, they came there also, agitating the crowd.

Acts 24:15

Having hope to God, which they themselves also admit, a rising from the dead about to be, both of just and unjust.

Acts 24:26

And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.

Acts 26:28

And Agrippa said to Paul, In a little thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

Romans 2:16

In the day when God shall judge the concealed things of men according to my good news by Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:19-20

And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.

Romans 12:1

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

Romans 14:12

So therefore shall each of us give word for himself to God.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge ye nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who also, will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of hearts: and then shall praise be to each from God.

1 Corinthians 14:24-25

And If all prophesy, and any unbelieving, or ignorant private individual come in, he is refuted by all, he is examined by all:

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

2 Corinthians 6:2

(For he says, In an acceptable time I listened to thee, and in the day of salvation have I run to succor thee: behold, now the acceptable time; behold; now the day of salvation.)

Galatians 3:22

But the writing shut up all things under sin, that the promise from faith of Jesus Christ might be given to the believing.

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power,

2 Timothy 4:1

I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom;

Titus 2:11-12

For the grace of God who saves, was manifested to all men,

Hebrews 3:7-8

Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice,

Hebrews 3:13

But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin.

Hebrews 4:1

Let us therefore fear, lest a solemn promise being left to come into his rest, any of you should seem to have failed.

Hebrews 4:11-12

Therefore we should be earnest to come into that rest, lest any should fall in the same pattern of unbelief.

Hebrews 6:2

Of the teaching of immersions, and placing upon of hands, and of the rising up of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:

Hebrews 12:21

And so dreadful was that being made to appear, Moses said, I am terrified and trembling:)

James 2:19

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: and the evil spirits believe, and shudder.

James 4:13-14

Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit:

1 Peter 3:15

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:

1 Peter 4:4-5

In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:

1 John 3:7

Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.

Revelation 20:11-15

And I saw a great white throne, and him sitting upon it, from the face of whom the earth and the heaven fled; and there was found no place for them.

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