Acts 26:6 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁶ Even now, it is because of my hope in the promise given by God to our ancestors that I stand here on my trial--

⁶⁹ And has raised up for us the Strength of our Salvation In the House of his servant David-- ⁷⁰ As he promised by the lips of his Holy Prophets of old--

²⁴ Yes, and all the Prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.

³² We also have good news to tell you, about the promise made to our ancestors-- ³³ That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm--'Thou art my Son; this day I have become thy Father.'

⁶ Noticing that some of those present were Sadducees and others Pharisees, Paul called out in the Council: "Brothers, I am a Pharisee and a son of Pharisees. It is on the question of hope for the dead and of their resurrection that I am on my trial."

¹⁵ And I have a hope that rests in God--a hope which they also cherish--that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.

²¹ Except as to the one sentence that I shouted out as I stood among them--'It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial before you to-day'."

⁸ Why do you all hold it incredible that God should raise the dead?

²⁰ This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the Hope of Israel that I am here in chains."

⁸ For I tell you that Christ, in vindication of God's truthfulness, has become a minister of the Covenant of Circumcision, so that he may fulfil the promises made to our ancestors,

¹⁷ My point is this--An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside. ¹⁸ If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.

⁴ But, when the full time came, God sent his Son--born a woman's child, born subject to Law--

¹³ while we are awaiting our Blessed Hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.

¹¹ as they strove to discern what that time could be, to which the Spirit of Christ within them was pointing, when foretelling the sufferings that would befall Christ, and the glories that would follow. ¹² And it was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were acting as Ministers of the truths which have now been told to you, by those who, with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven, have brought you the Good News--truths into which even angels long to look.