Acts 9:16

Easy-to-Read Version

I will show him all that he must suffer for me."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

King James Version (1611)
For I will shew him how great things hee must suffer for my Names sake.

King James Version
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

English Standard Version
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

New American Standard Bible
for I will show him how much he must suffer in behalf of My name."

New Century Version
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

Amplified Bible
for I will make clear to him how much he must suffer and endure for My name's sake."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake."

Legacy Standard Bible
for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name."

Berean Standard Bible
I will show him how much he must suffer for My name."

Contemporary English Version
I will show him how much he must suffer for worshiping in my name."

Complete Jewish Bible
For I myself will show him how much he will have to suffer on account of my name."

Darby Translation
for *I* will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake.

George Lamsa Translation
For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name''s sake.

Good News Translation
And I myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake."

Lexham English Bible
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Literal Translation
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of My name.

American Standard Version
for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Bible in Basic English
For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

Hebrew Names Version
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."

International Standard Version
For I am going to show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."Acts 20:23; 21:11; 2 Corinthians 11:23;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For I will show him what he is to suffer on account of my name.

Murdock Translation
For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I wyl shew hym how great thinges he must suffer for my names sake.

English Revised Version
for I will shew him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

World English Bible
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Weymouth's New Testament
For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y schal schewe to hym, how grete thingis it bihoueth hym to suffre for my name.

Update Bible Version
for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

New English Translation
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

New King James Version
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake."

New Living Translation
And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."

New Life Bible
I will show him how much he will have to suffer because of Me."

New Revised Standard
I myself will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, I, will let him understand how many things he must needs, for my name, suffer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

Revised Standard Version
for I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For I will shewe him how great thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

Young's Literal Translation
for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil shewe him, how greate thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.

Simplified Cowboy Version
I'm going to show him how hard it is to be one of my cowboys."

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ There was a follower of Jesus in Damascus named Ananias. In a vision the Lord said to him, "Ananias!" Ananias answered, "Here I am, Lord." ¹¹ The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called Straight Street. Find the house of Judas and ask for a man named Saul from the city of Tarsus. He is there now, praying. ¹² He has seen a vision in which a man named Ananias came and laid his hands on him so that he could see again." ¹³ But Ananias answered, "Lord, many people have told me about this man. They told me about the many bad things he did to your holy people in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Now he has come here to Damascus. The leading priests have given him the power to arrest all people who trust in you." ¹⁵ But the Lord Jesus said to Ananias, "Go! I have chosen Saul for an important work. I want him to tell other nations, their rulers, and the people of Israel about me. ¹⁶ I will show him all that he must suffer for me." ¹⁷ So Ananias left and went to the house of Judas. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Saul, my brother, the Lord Jesus sent me. He is the one you saw on the road when you came here. He sent me so that you can see again and also be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸ Immediately, something that looked like fish scales fell off Saul's eyes. He was able to see! Then he got up and was baptized. ¹⁹ After he ate, he began to feel strong again. Saul stayed with the followers of Jesus in Damascus for a few days.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Acts 20:22, Acts 20:23, Acts 21:11, Isaiah 33:1, Matthew 10:21-25, John 15:20, John 16:1-4, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13, 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, 2 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 2:9, 2 Timothy 2:10, 2 Timothy 3:11

for: Acts 9:14, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 24:9, 1 Peter 4:14, Revelation 1:9

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 3:25 - General Matthew 10:22 - for Matthew 19:29 - my Mark 8:35 - for Mark 13:9 - take Luke 6:22 - for Luke 10:3 - I send Luke 21:17 - for John 14:2 - if John 15:21 - all John 16:4 - that when Acts 9:23 - the Jews Acts 14:19 - having Acts 16:19 - they Acts 26:9 - the name Acts 26:16 - to make 1 Corinthians 4:10 - for Galatians 1:1 - but 1 Thessalonians 3:3 - we are 1 Peter 2:21 - even 1 Peter 3:14 - if 3 John 1:7 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 9:3
In the past, I gave you the green plants to eat. Now every animal will also be food for you. I give you everything on earth—it is yours.

Genesis 9:4
But I give you one command. You must not eat meat that still has its life (blood) in it.

Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,

Genesis 9:9
"I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you.

Genesis 9:10
I make my promise to all the birds, and to all the cattle, and to all the animals that came out of the boat with you. I make my promise to every living thing on earth.

Genesis 9:11
This is my promise to you: All life on the earth was destroyed by the flood. But that will never happen again. A flood will never again destroy all life on the earth."

Genesis 9:21
One day Noah made some wine. He got drunk, went into his tent, and took off all his clothes.

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his brothers who were outside the tent.

Genesis 17:7
And I will prepare an agreement between me and you. This agreement will also be for all your descendants. It will continue forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.

Genesis 17:13
So every baby boy in your nation will be circumcised. Every boy who is born from your family or bought as a slave will be circumcised.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will show him,.... In vision, and by prophecy, either now, or hereafter; or by facts, as they come upon him:

how great things he must suffer for my name's sake; such as weariness, pain, and watchings, hunger, thirst, fastings, cold, and nakedness, perils on various accounts, and from different quarters, stripes, scourges, imprisonment, shipwreck, stoning, and death, of which he himself gives a detail, 2 Corinthians 11:23 so that Ananias had no reason to be afraid to go to him, and converse with him, and do unto him as he was directed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will show him ... - This seems to be added to encourage Ananias. He had feared Saul. The Lord now informs him that Saul, hitherto his enemy, would ever after be his friend. He would not merely profess repentance, but would manifest the sincerity of it by encountering trials and reproaches for his sake. The prediction here was fully accomplished, Acts 20:23; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27; 2 Timothy 1:11-12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 9:16. How great things he must suffer — Instead of proceeding as a persecutor, and inflicting sufferings on others, I will show him how many things he himself must suffer for preaching that very doctrine which he has been hitherto employed in persecuting. Strange change indeed! And with great show of reason, as with incontrovertible strength of argument, has a noble writer, Lord Lyttleton, adduced the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, and his subsequent conduct, as an irrefragable proof of the truth of Christianity.

Some think that the words, I will show him, c., refer to a visionary representation, which Christ was immediately to give Saul, of the trials and difficulties which he should have to encounter as also of that death by which he should seal his testimony to the truth. If so, what a most thorough conviction must Saul have had of the truth of Christianity, cheerfully and deliberately to give up all worldly honours and profits, and go forward in a work which he knew a violent death was to terminate!