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Acts 22:4
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Acts 22:4
4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
4*And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prisons both men and women,
- Chap. 8.3.
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Acts 22:4
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
persecuted
Harassed, afflicted, or pursued with hostility, especially for one's faith or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fastening, tying, or restraining.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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delivering
Releasing; setting free; rescuing; saving; surrendering; giving over; yielding; resigning.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Places of confinement.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
20And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
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Open the full verse study13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
14And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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Open the full verse study9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
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Open the full verse study9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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Open the full verse study17The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
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Open the full verse study1AND Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.
2And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
3As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
4Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
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Open the full verse study26And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
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Open the full verse study23And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
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Open the full verse study9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
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Open the full verse study14But 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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Open the full verse study58And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
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Open the full verse study1AND Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study13Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
14And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
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Open the full verse study21But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
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Open the full verse study6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
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