Acts 15:26
24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
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
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Read in contextActs 9:23–25
And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
Read in contextPhilippians 2:29–30
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:23–27
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:30
And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
Read in contextJudges 5:18
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
Read in contextActs 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Read in context