Acts 26:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

I also verely thought in my selfe, that I ought to doe many contrarie things against the Name of Iesus of Nazareth.

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  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 When before I was a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and an oppresser: but I was receiued to mercie: for I did it ignorantly through vnbeliefe.
  • Acts 22:8 : 8 Then I answered, Who art thou, Lorde? And he said to me, I am Iesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the Nazarites:
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 For I beare them record, that they haue the zeale of God, but not according to knowledge.
  • Gal 1:13-14 : 13 For ye haue heard of my conuersation in time past, in the Iewish religion, how that I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it, 14 And profited in the Iewish religion aboue many of my companions of mine owne nation, and was much more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
  • Phil 3:6 : 6 Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.
  • John 15:21 : 21 But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they haue not knowen him that sent me.
  • John 16:2-3 : 2 They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice. 3 And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.
  • Acts 3:6 : 6 Then said Peter, Siluer & gold haue I none, but such as I haue, that giue I thee: In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, rise vp and walke.
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake.
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, and sayd, What doe ye weeping and breaking mine heart? For I am ready not to be bound onely, but also to die at Hierusalem for the Name of the Lord Iesus.

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  • Acts 26:10-15
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    10Which thing I also did in Hierusalem: for many of the Saints I shut vp in prison, hauing receiued authoritie of the hie Priests, and when they were put to death, I gaue my sentence.

    11And I punished them throughout all the Synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being more mad against them, I persecuted them, euen vnto strange cities.

    12At which time, euen as I went to Damascus with authoritie, and commission from the hie Priests,

    13At midday, O King, I sawe in the way a light from heauen, passing the brightnes of the sunne, shine round about mee, and them which went with me.

    14So when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voyce speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against pricks.

    15Then I sayd, Who art thou, Lord? And he sayd, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19Then I sayd, Lord, they know that I prisoned, and beat in euery Synagogue them that beleeued in thee.

    20And when the blood of thy martyr Steuen was shed, I also stood by, and consented vnto his death, & kept the clothes of them that slew him.

  • Gal 1:13-14
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    13For ye haue heard of my conuersation in time past, in the Iewish religion, how that I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and wasted it,

    14And profited in the Iewish religion aboue many of my companions of mine owne nation, and was much more zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

  • Acts 22:3-11
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    3I am verely a man, which am a Iew, borne in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought vp in this citie at the feete of Gamaliel, & instructed according to the perfect maner of the Lawe of the Fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

    4And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prison both men and women.

    5As also ye chiefe Priest doeth beare me witnes, & al the company of the Elders: of whom also I receiued letters vnto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring them which were there, bound vnto Hierusalem, that they might be punished.

    6And so it was, as I iourneyed and was come neere vnto Damascus about noone, that suddenly there shone from heauen a great light round about me.

    7So I fell vnto the earth, and heard a voyce, saying vnto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou mee?

    8Then I answered, Who art thou, Lorde? And he said to me, I am Iesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

    9Moreouer they that were with me, sawe in deede a light and were afraide: but they heard not the voyce of him that spake vnto me.

    10Then I sayd, What shall I doe, Lord? And the Lorde sayde vnto me, Arise, and goe into Damascus: and there it shall be tolde thee of all things, which are appointed for thee to doe.

    11So when I could not see for the glory of that light, I was led by the hand of them that were with me, and came into Damascus.

  • Acts 9:21
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    21So that all that heard him, were amased, and sayde, Is not this hee, that made hauocke of them which called on this Name in Hierusalem, and came hither for that intent, that hee should bring them bound vnto the hie Priests?

  • Acts 9:13-14
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    13Then Ananias answered, Lord, I haue heard by many of this man, howe much euill hee hath done to thy saints at Hierusalem.

    14Moreouer here hee hath authoritie of the hie Priestes, to binde all that call on thy Name.

  • Acts 26:4-5
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    4As touching my life from my childhood, and what it was from the beginning among mine owne nation at Hierusalem, know all the Iewes,

    5Which knewe me heretofore, euen from my elders (if they would testifie) that after the most straite sect of our religion I liued a Pharise.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this cause the Iewes caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me.

  • Acts 24:14
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    14But this I confesse vnto thee, that after the way (which they call heresie) so worship I the God of my fathers, beleeuing all things which are written in the Lawe and the Prophets,

  • Acts 9:1-2
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    1And Saul yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of ye Lord, went vnto the hie Priest,

    2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the Synagogues, that if he found any that were of that way (either men or women) hee might bring them bound vnto Hierusalem.

  • Phil 3:6
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    6Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.

  • 1 Tim 1:13
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    13When before I was a blasphemer, and a persecuter, and an oppresser: but I was receiued to mercie: for I did it ignorantly through vnbeliefe.

  • Gal 1:23
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    23But they had heard onely some say, Hee which persecuted vs in time past, nowe preacheth the faith which before he destroyed.

  • 1 Cor 15:9
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    9For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

  • Acts 9:23
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    23And after that many dayes were fulfilled, the Iewes tooke counsell together, to kill him,

  • Acts 28:19
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    19But when the Iewes spake contrary, I was constrained to appeale vnto Cesar, not because I had ought to accuse my nation of.

  • Acts 25:15
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    15Of whom when I came to Hierusalem, the high Priestes and Elders of the Iewes informed me, and desired to haue iudgement against him.

  • Acts 9:16
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    16For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake.

  • Acts 26:8
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    8Why should it be thought a thing incredible vnto you, that God should raise againe the dead?

  • Acts 9:4-6
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    4And hee fell to the earth, and heard a voyce, saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

    5And he sayd, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord sayd, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kicke against pricks.

    6He then both trembling and astonied, sayd, Lord, what wilt thou that I doe? And the Lord sayd vnto him, Arise and goe into the citie, and it shall be tolde thee what thou shalt doe.

  • Acts 24:20
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    20Or let these themselues say, if they haue found any vniust thing in mee, while I stoode in the Council,

  • Acts 23:29
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    29There I perceiued that hee was accused of questions of their Lawe, but had no crime worthy of death, or of bondes.

  • Acts 25:20
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    20And because I doubted of such maner of question, I asked him whether he would goe to Hierusalem, and there be iudged of these things.

  • Acts 26:2
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    2I thinke my selfe happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answere this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the Iewes.

  • Acts 9:26-27
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    26And when Saul was come to Hierusalem, he assayed to ioyne himselfe with the disciples: but they were all afrayd of him, and beleeued not that he was a disciple.

    27But Barnabas tooke him, and brought him to the Apostles, and declared to them, howe hee had seene the Lord in the way, and that hee had spoken vnto him, and how he had spoken boldly at Damascus in the Name of Iesus.

  • Acts 25:18
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    18Against whom when the accusers stood vp, they brought no crime of such things as I supposed:

  • Acts 25:8
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    8Forasmuch as he answered, that he had neither offended any thing against the lawe of the Iewes, neither against ye temple, nor against Cæsar.

  • Acts 26:19
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    19Wherefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient vnto the heauenly vision,

  • Acts 25:10
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    10Then said Paul, I stand at Cæsars iudgment seate, where I ought to be iudged: to the Iewes I haue done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.