Acts 7:59 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁹ While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁹ And while they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, Lord Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Common English Bible

⁵⁹ As they battered him with stones, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, accept my life!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁹ Then, having been brought to his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his murder.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁹ And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

Acts 7:59 Cross References

1 Kings 21:13

The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him, and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.

Psalm 31:5

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Joel 2:32

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Acts 2:21

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Acts 22:16

And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who invoke your name.”

Acts 9:21

All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem among those who invoked this name? And has he not come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

2 Timothy 2:22

Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.