Acts 26:11

American Standard Version (1901)

And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

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  • Matt 10:17 : 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you;
  • Acts 22:19 : 19 And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
  • Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
  • Acts 18:6 : 6 And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. [
  • Acts 22:5 : 5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
  • Acts 26:24-25 : 24 And as he thus made his defense, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning is turning thee mad. 25 But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but speak forth words of truth and soberness.
  • Heb 10:28-29 : 28 A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
  • Jas 2:7 : 7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?
  • 2 Pet 2:16 : 16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
  • Mark 3:28 : 28 Verily I say unto you, All their sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and their blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
  • Mark 13:9 : 9 But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them.
  • Luke 6:11 : 11 But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
  • Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
  • Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.
  • Acts 9:1 : 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

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  • Acts 26:9-10
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    9I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

  • Acts 26:12-15
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    12Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

    13at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.

    14And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

    15And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

  • Acts 22:18-21
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    18and saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive of thee testimony concerning me.

    19And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

    20and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of them that slew him.

    21And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.

  • Acts 22:3-8
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    3I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

    4and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

    5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

    6And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and drew nigh unto Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

    7And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

    8And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

    14and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

  • Acts 8:3
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    3But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

  • 1 Tim 1:13
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    13though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

  • Gal 1:22-23
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    22And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

    23but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

  • Acts 9:1-2
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    1But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

    2and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

  • Phil 3:6
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    6as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Acts 9:21
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    21And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havoc of them that called on this name? and he had come hither for this intent, that he might bring them bound before the chief priests.

  • 2 Tim 3:11
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    11persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,

    6they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about:

  • Acts 26:4-5
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    4My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

    5having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

  • Acts 22:11
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    11And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me I came into Damascus.

  • Acts 16:22-23
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    22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

    23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:23-24
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    23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

    24Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one.

  • 1 Thess 2:15-16
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    15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men;

    16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

  • Acts 9:13
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    13But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how much evil he did to thy saints at Jerusalem:

  • Acts 8:1
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    1And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

  • 2 Cor 11:32
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    32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:

  • Heb 11:36
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    36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

  • Acts 13:50
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    50But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

  • 2 Cor 11:26
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    26[ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;

  • Luke 22:65
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    65And many other things spake they against him, reviling him.

  • Acts 26:17
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    17delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,

  • John 16:2
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    2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.

  • Luke 21:12
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    12But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.