Acts 9:16

for I will show him how many things he must suffer for My Name.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15And the LORD said to him, “Go, because this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to carry My Name before nations and kings—also the sons of Israel;

17And Ananias went away, and entered into the house, and having put on him [his] hands, said, “Saul, brother, the LORD has sent me—Jesus who appeared to you in the way in which you were coming—that you may see again, and may be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Blessed are you whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for My sake—

Matthew 24:9then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of My Name;

John 16:1“These things I have spoken to you, that you may not be stumbled.

Acts 20:22And now, behold, I—bound in the Spirit—go on to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will befall me in it,

Acts 21:11and he having come to us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having also bound his own hands and feet, said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: The man whose is this girdle—so will the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they will deliver [him] up into the hands of nations.”

2 Corinthians 6:4but in everything recommending ourselves as God’s servants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

Matthew Henry on Acts 9:11-23

Ananias Sent to Saul; Ananias Restores Saul's Sight; Saul Associates with the Disciples; Saul Preaches Christ at Damascus. 10 And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, 12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and… Read the whole commentary →

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