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Acts 28:20
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Acts 28:20
20For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
20For this cause therefore haue I called for you, to see you, and to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chaine.
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Acts 28:20
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
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Named, summoned, invited, proclaimed, or addressed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
For the reason that; since.
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Confident expectation or desire for good; as a verb, to expect with trust.
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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Made fast, tied, confined, or obligated; destined or going toward; as a verb, to set a limit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A bond, confinement, affliction, or surrounding force compared to a chain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
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Open the full verse study6And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
7Unto 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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Open the full verse study20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Open the full verse study29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
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Open the full verse study13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
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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 study6But 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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Open the full verse study15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
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Open the full verse study1FOR this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
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Open the full verse study1I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
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Open the full verse study33Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
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Open the full verse study10I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
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Open the full verse study10But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
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Open the full verse study29Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
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Open the full verse study17And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
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Open the full verse study18The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
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Open the full verse study13Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
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