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Acts 13:26

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Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
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  1. Colossians 1:5Rank 1 from verse 26
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    5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

  2. Ephesians 1:13Rank 2 from verse 26
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    13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

  3. Isaiah 46:13Rank 3 from verse 26
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    13I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

  4. Luke 1:69Rank 4 from verse 26
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    69And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

  5. Luke 1:77Rank 5 from verse 26
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    77To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,

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Acts 13:26

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brethren

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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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stock

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The stem or main body of a tree or other plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the origin and support of the branches.

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Abraham

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The patriarch formerly named Abram, whom God appointed to be a father of many nations.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

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word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

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13:17The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

13:18And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

13:19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

13:20And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

13:21And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

13:22And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

13:23Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

13:24When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

13:25And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

13:26Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

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13:27For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

13:29And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

13:30But God raised him from the dead:

13:31And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

13:32And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

13:33God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

13:34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

13:35Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

13:36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

13:37But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

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