Acts 26:17

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Summary

Acts 26:17

Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

Delivering

The gentiles

General references

Proverbs 14:25

Romans 3:29

Bible References

Delivering

And after many days had been fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.

And when there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, in order to insult and to stone them,

And coming they begged them. And bringing them out, they asked them to depart out of the city.

And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. They, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

For I am with you, and no one shall set on you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.

And hearing, and becoming full of anger, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring him into the fortress.

asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.

And the mind of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.

At my first answer no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.

The gentiles

But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

Therefore be it known to you that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will hear.

For I speak to you, the nations; since I am the apostle of the nations, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

and knowing the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave right hands of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we go to the nations, but they to the circumcision.

Of this gospel I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.

To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth.

to which I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the nations.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and that all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

General references

A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,