Acts 26:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

"Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 1:13 : 13 For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
  • 2 Tim 3:10 : 10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 "I am indeed 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 you all are this day.

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  • Acts 26:5-6
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    5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

    6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

  • Gal 1:13-17
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    13For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

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

    15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

    17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

  • Acts 26:2-3
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    2"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

    3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

  • Acts 22:1-6
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    1"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."

    2When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

    3"I am indeed 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 you all are this day.

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

    5As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

    6It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.

  • Phil 3:4-6
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    4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

    5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

    6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

  • Acts 26:9-13
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    9"I myself most assuredly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

    10This I also did in Jerusalem. 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.

    11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

    12"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

    13at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

    22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

  • Acts 24:14
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    14But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  • Acts 24:10-11
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    10When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

    11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

  • Acts 28:19
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    19But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

  • Acts 24:17-21
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    17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

    18amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

    19They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

    20Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

    21unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

  • Acts 25:15
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    15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

  • Gal 1:21-22
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    21Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

    22I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

  • Acts 28:17
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    17It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

  • Acts 23:6
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    6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

  • Acts 23:1
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    1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."

  • Acts 20:18-19
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    18When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

    19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

  • Acts 26:26
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    26For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

  • Acts 21:39
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    39But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people."

  • Acts 25:10
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    10But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

  • Rom 15:31
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    31that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;