Acts 15:26
men who have given over their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Context
27We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, themselves also declaring the same things by speech.
Cross References
Judges 5:18Zebulun was a people who jeopardized their lives to the death, and Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.
Acts 13:50But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries.
1 Corinthians 15:30And we, why are we in peril every hour?
Philippians 2:29Receive him therefore in Lord with all gladness, and hold such men esteemed.
Matthew Henry on Acts 15:23-36
Decision of the Council at Jerusalem; The Publication of the Decree. 22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: 23 And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: 24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which… Read the whole commentary →