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Acts 26:1
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And Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted
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Acts 26:2
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I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am
to make my defense before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused
by the Jews: |
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Acts 26:3
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especially because thou art expert in all customs
and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
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Acts 26:4
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My
manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine
own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; |
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Acts 26:5
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having knowledge of me from the first, if they
be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a
Pharisee. |
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Acts 26:6
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And now I stand here to be judged for the hope
of the promise made of God unto our fathers; |
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Acts 26:7
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unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly
serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused
by the Jews, O king! |
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Acts 26:8
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Why is it judged incredible with you, if God
doth raise the dead? |
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Acts 26:9
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I verily thought with myself that I ought to
do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. |
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Acts 26:10
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And 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. |
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Acts 26:11
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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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Acts 26:12
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Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the
authority and commission of the chief priests, |
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Acts 26:13
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at 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. |
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Acts 26:14
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And 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. |
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Acts 26:15
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And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord
said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. |
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Acts 26:16
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But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this
end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of
the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear
unto thee; |
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Acts 26:17
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delivering thee from the people, and from the
Gentiles, unto whom I send thee, |
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Acts 26:18
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to open their eyes, that they may turn from
darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive
remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in
me. |
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Acts 26:19
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Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient
unto the heavenly vision: |
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Acts 26:20
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but declared both to them of Damascus first
and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. |
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Acts 26:21
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For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple,
and assayed to kill me. |
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Acts 26:22
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Having therefore obtained the help that is from
God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing
but what the prophets and Moses did say should come; |
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Acts 26:23
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how that the Christ must suffer, and how that
he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people
and to the Gentiles. |
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Acts 26:24
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And as he thus made his defense, Festus saith
with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning is turning thee mad.
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Acts 26:25
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But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent
Festus; but speak forth words of truth and soberness. |
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Acts 26:26
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For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom
also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from
him; for this hath not been done in a corner. |
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Acts 26:27
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King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I
know that thou believest. |
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Acts 26:28
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And Agrippa said unto Paul, With but little
persuasion thou wouldest fain make me a Christian. |
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Acts 26:29
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And Paul said, I would to God, that whether
with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might
become such as I am, except these bonds. |
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Acts 26:30
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And the king rose up, and the governor, and
Bernice, and they that sat with them: |
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Acts 26:31
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and when they had withdrawn, they spake one
to another, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. |
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Acts 26:32
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And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might
have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar. |
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