Acts 24:15 KJV

Acts · chapter 24 · verse 15

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.Acts 24:15 · King James Version

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Acts 24:15 in context

13Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

17Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

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Commentary

We have here Paul's defence of himself, in answer to Tertullus's charge, and there appears in it a great deal of the spirit of wisdom and holiness, and an accomplishment of Christ's promise to his followers that when they were before governors and kings, for his sake, it should be given them in that same hour what…

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-21

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Key words (Strong's)

resurrectionanastasisa raising up, rising , a rising from the dead, that of Christ, that of all men at the end…G386 →
themselvesautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
towardeisinto, unto, to, towards, for, amongG1519 →
allowprosdechomaito receive to one's self, to admit, to give access to one's self, to admit one, receive…G4327 →
hopeelpisexpectation of evil, fear, expectation of good, hope, in the Christian sense, joyful and…G1680 →
deadnekrosproperly, one that has breathed his last, lifeless, deceased, departed, one whose soul is…G3498 →

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