Acts 26:17

Christ promises to rescue Paul from both Jews and Gentiles, the very peoples to whom He is sending him as a missionary.

Cross-references · 35

• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• 1 Tim 2:7to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
• Rom 11:13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
• Jer 1:19They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
• 2 Tim 1:11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• Jer 1:8Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.
• Acts 28:28“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
• 2 Tim 3:11persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
• Eph 3:7–8of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Gal 2:9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
• 2 Tim 4:16–17At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
• Acts 25:3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
• Acts 17:14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
• Acts 16:39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
• Acts 22:21–22“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• Acts 23:10–24When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
• Acts 19:28–41When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
• 1 Chr 16:35Say, “Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise.”
• Acts 18:10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
• 2 Cor 1:8–10For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
• Acts 17:10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
• Acts 25:9–11But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”
• Acts 9:23–25When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
• Acts 27:42–44The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
• Acts 18:12–16But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
• Acts 9:29–30preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
• Ps 37:32–33The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• 2 Cor 4:8–10We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 14:5–6When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
• Acts 21:28–36crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”
• Acts 14:19–20But 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 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.
• 2 Cor 11:23–26Are 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.

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