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Acts 26:5

3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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

7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

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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.

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BSB
They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
KJV
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
WEB
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
ASV
having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
DARBY
who knew me before from the outset [of my life], if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
BLB
knowing me from the first, if they would be willing to testify—that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived [as] a Pharisee.
ÅB
da de forut vet om meg, like fra først av, om de bare vil komme fram med sitt vitnesbyrd, at jeg levde etter det strengeste parti av vår gudsdyrkelse, som fariseer.
OTB
De har kjent meg lenge, hvis de er villige til å vitne, at jeg levde i samsvar med den strengeste sekt av vår religion, som en fariseer.
B1930
da de forut vet om mig, like fra først av, om de bare vil komme frem med sitt vidnesbyrd, at jeg levde efter det strengeste parti av vår gudsdyrkelse, som fariseer.

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Cross references

  • Acts 23:6

    But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

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  • Acts 22:3

    I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

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  • Acts 22:5

    As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

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  • Acts 24:5

    For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

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  • Philippians 3:5–6

    Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

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  • Acts 24:14

    But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

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