Acts 26:6

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Summary

Acts 26:6

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Am

The promise

Bible References

Am

Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial."

having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there will certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."

The promise

And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also announced these days.

And we preach to you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised to show God's truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

What I mean is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.