Acts Chapter 26 verse 6 Holy Bible
And now I stand `here' to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;
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And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;
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And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
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And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers:
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Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
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and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Here to be judged for and am judged, A.V. To be judged (ἕστηκα κρινόμενος); rather, I stand on my trial. The A.V. seems to give the sense well. The hope of the promise. The hope of the kingdom of Christ, which necessarily implies the resurrection of the dead. This hope, which rested upon God's promise to the fathers, Paul clung to; this hope his Sadducean persecutors denied. He, then, was the true Jew; he was faithful to Moses and the prophets; he claimed the sympathy and support of all true Israelites, and specially of King Agrippa.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) For the hope of the promise made of God. The words include the whole expectation of a divine kingdom of which the Christ was to be the head, as well as the specific belief in a resurrection of the dead.Unto our fathers.--Some of the better MSS. have simply, "to the fathers." The Received text is, perhaps, more in harmony with St. Paul's usual manner of identifying himself with those to whom he speaks. He will claim even Agrippa as of the stock of Abraham. (Comp. in this connection the anecdote as to Agrippa I. given in Note on Acts 12:21.)
