men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- KJV Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- BSB men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NASB men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NLT who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Quick answer
They commend Barnabas and Paul as men who risked their lives for Jesus' name. Their costly faithfulness vindicated their ministry.
Overview
The letter honors the missionaries for hazarding their lives for the sake of Christ. This commendation answers any lingering doubt about their reliability against the agitators. Their willingness to suffer for the name of the Lord Jesus marks them as trustworthy servants of the gospel they preached.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Acts 14:19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
- Acts 9:23–25When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
- Phil 2:29–30Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
- 1 Cor 15:30Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
- 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
- Judg 5:18Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
- Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
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