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Acts 9:16

For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s 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."
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.
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 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias, And he said: Behold I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is called Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold he prayeth. 12 (And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands upon him, that he might receive his sight.) 13 But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that invoke thy name. 15 And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake. 17 And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales: and he received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized. 19 And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples that were at Damascus, for some 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
And every thing that moveth, and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you:
Genesis 9:4
Saving that flesh with blood you shall not eat.
Genesis 9:8
Thus also said God to Noe, and to his sons with him:
Genesis 9:9
Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:
Genesis 9:10
And with every living soul that is with you, as well in all birds, as in cattle and beasts of the earth, that are come forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts of the earth.
Genesis 9:11
I will establish my covenant with you, and all flesh shall be no more destroyed with the waters of a flood, neither shall there be from henceforth a flood to waste the earth.
Genesis 9:21
And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 9:22
Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Genesis 17:13
And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

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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