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Acts 26:18

Satan
RepentanceForgivenessSalvationFaith

16 ‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

19 So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

20 First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

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BSB
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
KJV
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
WEB
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
ASV
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
DARBY
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
BLB
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, [that] they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those having been sanctified by faith in Me.’
ÅB
for å åpne deres øyne, så de kan vende seg fra mørke til lys og fra Satans makt til Gud, for at de kan få syndenes tilgivelse og arvelodd blant dem som er helliget ved troen på meg.
OTB
for å åpne deres øyne og vende dem fra mørke til lys, og fra Satans makt til Gud, så de kan få tilgivelse for synder og en plass blant dem som er helliget ved troen på meg.’
B1930
for å oplate deres øine, så de kan vende sig fra mørke til lys og fra Satans makt til Gud, forat de kan få syndenes forlatelse og arvelodd blandt dem som er helliget ved troen på mig.

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Cross references

  • 1 Peter 2:9

    But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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  • Ephesians 1:18

    I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

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  • Acts 20:32

    And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

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  • Ephesians 5:8

    For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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  • Isaiah 42:7

    to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

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  • 2 Corinthians 4:6

    For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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  • Colossians 1:12–14

    giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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  • John 8:12

    Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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