Acts 12:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ The very night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The very night before Herod was about to bring him forth, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, fastened with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.

Common English Bible

⁶ The night before Herod was going to bring Peter’s case forward, Peter was asleep between two soldiers and bound with two chains, with soldiers guarding the prison entrance.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And when Herod was ready to produce him, in that same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, and was bound with two chains. And there were guards in front of the door, guarding the prison.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

Acts 12:6 Cross References

Genesis 22:14

So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord will provide; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

Psalm 4:8

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety.

Jeremiah 40:1

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

Jeremiah 40:4

Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well; but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

Matthew 28:4

And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison; but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

Acts 21:33

Then the tribune came up and arrested him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.

Acts 28:20

For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Acts 5:23

“We found the prison securely locked and the sentries standing at the doors, but when we opened it we found no one inside.”

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said, “I will scatter them afar, I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,”

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains,

Hebrews 13:6

Hence we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?”