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Geneva Bible

Acts 9:16

For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ananias;   Call;   Converts;   Heart;   Jesus, the Christ;   Paul;   Regeneration;   Suffering;   Syria;   Thompson Chain Reference - For Christ's Sake;   Jesus' Sake, for;   Suffering for Christ's Sake;   Suffering for Righteousness' S;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ananias;   Damascus;   Stephen;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Damascus;   Name;   Persecution;   Revelation;   Syria;   Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Perseverance;   Vision(s);   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ascension of Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Damascus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Ananias;   Ascension;   Ascension of Christ;   Laying on of Hands;   Paul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Damascus;   Joppa;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles;   Ananias ;   Atonement (2);   Damascus, Damascenes;   Name (2);   Paul;   Self- Denial;   Suffering;   Synagogue;   Voice;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ananias ;   Damascus;   36 Ought Must;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ananias;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Damascus;   Synagogue;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Anani'as;   Damas'cus,;   Paul;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ananias (1);   Suffering;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 8;  

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will show him all that he must suffer for me."
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 And there was a certaine disciple at Damascus named Ananias, and to him sayd the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he sayd, Beholde, I am here Lord. 11 Then the Lord sayd vnto him, Arise, and goe into the streete which is called Straight, and seeke in the house of Iudas after one called Saul of Tarsus: for beholde, he prayeth. 12 (And he sawe in a vision a man named Ananias comming in to him, and putting his hands on him, that he might receiue his sight.) 13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I haue heard by many of this man, howe much euill hee hath done to thy saints at Hierusalem. 14 Moreouer here hee hath authoritie of the hie Priestes, to binde all that call on thy Name. 15 Then the Lord said vnto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel. 16 For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake. 17 Then Ananias went his way, and entred into that house, and put his hands on him, and sayd, Brother Saul, the Lorde hath sent me (euen Iesus that appeared vnto thee in the way as thou camest) that thou mightest receiue thy sight, and be filled with the holy Ghost. 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had bene scales, & suddenly he receiued sight, and arose, and was baptized, 19 And receiued meate, & was strengthened. So was Saul certaine dayes with the disciples which were at Damascus.

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
Euery thing that moueth and liueth, shall be meate for you: as the greene herbe, haue I giuen you all things.
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.
Genesis 9:8
God spake also to Noah & to his sonnes with him, saying,
Genesis 9:9
Behold, I, euen I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you,
Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, with the foule, with the cattell, and with euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, vnto euery beast of the earth.
Genesis 9:11
And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.
Genesis 9:21
And he drunke of ye wine and was drunken, & was vncouered in the middes of his tent.
Genesis 9:22
And when Ham the father of Canaan sawe the nakednesse of his father, he tolde his two brethren without.
Genesis 17:7
Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee.
Genesis 17:13
He that is borne in thine house, & he that is bought with thy money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shall be in your flesh for an euerlasting couenant.

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!


 
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