Acts 26:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 1:13 : 13 for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!
  • 2 Tim 3:10 : 10 And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,
  • Acts 22:3 : 3 `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

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  • Acts 26:5-6
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    5knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

    6and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

  • Gal 1:13-17
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    13for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

    14and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

    15and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called `me' through His grace --

    16to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

    17nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

  • Acts 26:2-3
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    2`Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

    3especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

  • Acts 22:1-6
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    1`Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

    2and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --

    3`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

    4`And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

    5as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,

    6and it came to pass, in my going on and coming nigh to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me,

  • Phil 3:4-6
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    4though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

    5circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!

    6according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;

    20and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;

  • Acts 26:9-13
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    9`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me' many things to do,

    10which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,

    11and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining `them' to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting `them' even unto strange cities.

    12`In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --

    13at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me;

  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill `me'.

    22`Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

  • Acts 24:14
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    14`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

  • Acts 24:10-11
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    10And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

    11thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

  • Acts 28:19
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    19and the Jews having spoken against `it', I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar -- not as having anything to accuse my nation of;

  • Acts 24:17-21
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    17`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

    18in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

    19whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

    20or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

    21except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

  • Acts 25:15
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    15about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,

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

    22and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that `are' in Christ,

  • Acts 28:17
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    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

  • Acts 23:6
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    6and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'

  • Acts 23:1
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    1And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

  • Acts 20:18-19
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    18and when they were come unto him, he said to them, `Ye -- ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia, how, with you at all times I was;

    19serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against `me';

  • 2 Cor 11:22
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    22Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

  • Acts 26:26
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    26for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;

  • Acts 21:39
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    39And Paul said, `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.'

  • Acts 25:10
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    10and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

  • Rom 15:31
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    31that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that `is' for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;