It will turn out as a testimony for you.
Parallel translations
- KJV And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
- BSB This will be your opportunity to serve as witnesses.
- NKJV But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.
- NASB It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.
- NLT But this will be your opportunity to tell them about me.
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Cross-references · 4
- Phil 1:12Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;
- Phil 1:28and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
- 2 Th 1:5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
- 1 Th 3:3–4that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
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