Acts 26:5
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Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
In other translations
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
Greek words
προγινώσκοντέςproginōskontesknowingG4267μεmemeG3165ἄνωθεν,anōthenfrom the first,G509ἐὰνeanifG1437θέλωσινthelōsinthey may be willingG2309μαρτυρεῖνmartureinto testifyG3140ὅτιhotithatG3754κατὰkataaccording toG2596τὴνtēntheG3588ἀκριβεστάτηνakribestatēnstrictestG196αἵρεσινairesinsectG139τῆςtēs<the>G3588ἡμετέραςhēmeterasof our ownG1473θρησκείαςthrēskeiasreligionG2356ἔζησαezēsaI lived [as]G2198Φαρισαῖος·Pharisaiosa Pharisee;G5330
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- Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
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