Devine Scripture

Acts 26:5

Acts chapter 26 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Context

v.4My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

v.5This passage

v.6And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 22:5

    As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

  • Acts 23:6

    But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

  • Philippians 3:5

    circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

  • Acts 24:14

    But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

  • Acts 24:5

    For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

  • Acts 22:3

    I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day: