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 when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him,

And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;

because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

And they having heard, and having become full of wrath, were crying out, saying, 'Great is the Artemis of the Ephesians!'

crying out, 'Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'

and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring him to the castle.

asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

The gentiles

And the Lord said unto him, 'Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;

and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'

'Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

General references

A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

The God of Jews only is He, and not also of nations?