Acts 26:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁷ I will rescue you from the [Jewish] people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Choosing you out [selecting you for Myself] and delivering you from among this [Jewish] people and the Gentiles to whom I am sending you–[Ezek. 2:1, 3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ rescuing you from the people and the nations to which I am now sending you,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Delivering thee from the people, and from the nations, unto which now I send thee:

Acts 26:17 Cross References

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devoted [non-Jewish] women who held respected positions, and the principal men of the city, by stirring up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and [succeeded] in running them out of the region.

Acts 16:39

So, they came and appealed to them [to leave peacefully]. Then the authorities themselves accompanied them out [of the jail] and asked them to leave the city.

Acts 17:10

The brothers [then] immediately sent Paul and Silas away at night to Berea [i.e., a town in Macedonia]. When they got there they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Acts 17:14

So, immediately the brothers sent Paul clear over to the coast, while Silas and Timothy remained there [at Berea].

Acts 18:10

for I will be with you [See Matt. 28:20] and no one will attack you or hurt you, for I have many people in this city [i.e., who will be converted].”

Acts 25:3

to do them a favor by having Paul brought [from Caesarea] to Jerusalem, for they were plotting to kill him on the way.

Acts 28:28

Then let it be known to you that salvation from God is [now] being announced to the Gentiles. They will listen [to it].”

Acts 9:15

But the Lord replied to him, “Go on your way, for Saul is someone I have especially chosen to carry my name to the [unconverted] Gentiles, kings and the Israelites.

Romans 11:13

Now I am talking to you Gentiles, [and] since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I will make the most of my ministry [to you],

Romans 15:16

in appointing me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I am serving like a priest in preaching God’s good news, so that the Gentiles might be like an acceptable sacrifice [to God], dedicated by the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 2:9

Also, when they perceived that this [special] favor [of preaching to Gentiles] was granted to me, James, Cephas [i.e., Peter] and John, the highly regarded pillars [i.e., leaders of the church] extended to me and Barnabas their right hands [signifying an agreement] to share [in the preaching of the Gospel], with us going to the Gentiles and they going to the circumcised ones [i.e., Jews].

1 Timothy 2:7

I was appointed to be a preacher [of this testimony] and an apostle and teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles. (I am telling the truth and not lying).

2 Timothy 1:11

of which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions and sufferings. You know what kind of things happened to me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra [See Acts 13:13-14:23], and what [severe] persecutions I experienced [there]. But the Lord rescued me from all of them.