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 judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

And Paul, perceiving that the one part was of the Sadducees, and the other of the Pharisees, was crying out in the Sanhedrin, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; concerning the hope and resurrection from the dead, I am being judged."

having hope toward God??hich these themselves also are looking for??hat there will be a resurrection, both of the righteous and unrighteous.

For this cause, therefore, I called for you, to see and to speak with you: for, on account of the hope of Israel, I am encompassed with this chain."

The promise

And also all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as spake, also foretold these days.

And we declare to you good tidings of the promise made to the fathers,

and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His servant;

For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers;

But this I say: A covenant previously confirmed by God, the law, which came into existence four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate, that it should make the promise of no effect.

But, when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under law,

looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

searching as to what time or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ Who was in them was pointing to, when testifying beforehand the sufferings destined for Christ, and the subsequent glories;