Acts 26:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ And now I stand here on trial for hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And now I stand here on trial [to be judged on the ground] of the hope of that promise made to our forefathers by God, [Acts 13:32, 33.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

Common English Bible

⁶ Today I am standing trial because of the hope in the promise God gave our ancestors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And now, it is in the hope of the Promise which was made by God to our fathers that I stand subject to judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And now for the hope of the promise that was made by God to the fathers, do I stand subject to judgment:

Acts 26:6 Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.”

Genesis 22:18

and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Psalm 132:11

The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

Psalm 132:17

There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

Psalm 98:2

The Lord has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.

Isaiah 4:2

In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu-el.

Ezekiel 21:27

A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it; there shall not be even a trace of it until he comes whose right it is; and to him I will give it.

Ezekiel 37:24

“My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.

Hosea 3:5

Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

Joel 2:32

And it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered; 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.

Obadiah 1:21

Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

Micah 7:20

Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Zechariah 13:1

“On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Zechariah 6:12

and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall grow up in his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.

Malachi 3:1

“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Acts 23:6

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial.”

Acts 24:15

having a hope in God which these themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Acts 24:21

except this one thing which I cried out while standing among them, ‘With respect to the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you this day.’ ”

Acts 26:8

Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

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 3:24

And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days.

Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

Deuteronomy 18:15

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren—him you shall heed—

Titus 2:13

awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,