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Acts 20:23
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Acts 20:23
23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
23Saue that the holy Ghost witnesseth in euery city, saying that bonds and afflictions ‖abide me.
- Or, waite for me.
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Acts 20:23
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to God or set apart for him; sacred; morally pure. Applied to God, it expresses his perfect purity; in Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, it identifies the Spirit of God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The spirit; in 'give up the ghost,' to yield the spirit and die.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Binding ties or obligations; also conditions of servitude, restraint, or captivity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To remain, continue, or endure.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 23
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Open the full verse study16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
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Open the full verse study3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
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Open the full verse study4And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study33Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
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Open the full verse study11And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
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Open the full verse study12If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
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Open the full verse study29Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
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Open the full verse study33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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