Acts 15:26
24 It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.
25 So we all agreed to choose men to send to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to tell you in person the same things we are writing.
28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- KJV
- Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- WEB
- men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- ASV
- men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- DARBY
- men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- BLB
- men having handed over their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- ÅB
- menn som har våget sitt liv for vår Herre Jesu Kristi navns skyld.
- OTB
- menn som allerede har møtt døden for vår Herre Jesu Kristi navn.
- B1930
- menn som har våget sitt liv for vår Herre Jesu Kristi navns skyld.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 14:19
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
Read in contextActs 9:23–25
After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,
Read in contextPhilippians 2:29–30
Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:23–27
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:30
And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
Read in contextJudges 5:18
Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
Read in contextActs 13:50
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
Read in context