Acts 28:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.””
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“So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with me: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with <FI>you<Fi> , for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 28:20 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 10:29So when I was invited, I came without objection. I ask, then, why have you sent for me?”
- Acts 10:33So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”
- Acts 21:33The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.
- Acts 23:6Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
- Acts 24:15and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
- Acts 26:6And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,
- Acts 26:29“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”
- Acts 28:17After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
- Ephesians 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...
- Ephesians 4:1As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
- Ephesians 6:20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
- Philippians 1:13As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
- Colossians 4:18This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.
- 2 Timothy 1:10And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
- 2 Timothy 2:9for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
- Philemon 1:10I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.
- Philemon 1:13I would have liked to keep him with me, so that on your behalf he could minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
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