Acts 9:16

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

I will show him how much he must suffer for My name."

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
I'm going to show him how hard it is to be one of my cowboys."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake."

Legacy Standard Bible
for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name."

Bible in Basic English
For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

Darby Translation
for *I* will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.

New King James Version
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake."

Christian Standard Bible®
I will show him how much he must suffer for My name!"

World English Bible
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Weymouth's New Testament
For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake."

King James Version (1611)
For I will shew him how great things hee must suffer for my Names sake.

Literal Translation
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of My name.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil shewe him, how greate thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.

Amplified Bible
for I will make clear to him how much he must suffer and endure for My name's sake."

American Standard Version
for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Revised Standard Version
for I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For I will shewe him how great thinges he must suffre for my names sake.

Update Bible Version
for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Young's Literal Translation
for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'

New Century Version
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

New English Translation
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Contemporary English Version
I will show him how much he must suffer for worshiping in my name."

Complete Jewish Bible
For I myself will show him how much he will have to suffer on account of my name."

English Standard Version
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake.

George Lamsa Translation
For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name''s sake.

Hebrew Names Version
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."

International Standard Version
For I am going to show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."Acts 20:23; 21:11; 2 Corinthians 11:23;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For I will show him what he is to suffer on account of my name.

Murdock Translation
For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.

New Living Translation
And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."

New Life Bible
I will show him how much he will have to suffer because of Me."

English Revised Version
for I will shew him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.

New Revised Standard
I myself will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, I, will let him understand how many things he must needs, for my name, suffer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

King James Version
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Lexham English Bible
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I wyl shew hym how great thinges he must suffer for my names sake.

Easy-to-Read Version
I will show him all that he must suffer for me."

New American Standard Bible
for I will show him how much he must suffer in behalf of My name."

Good News Translation
And I myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y schal schewe to hym, how grete thingis it bihoueth hym to suffre for my name.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, "Ananias!" "Here I am, Lord," he answered. ¹¹"Get up!" the Lord told him. "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. ¹²In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight." ¹³But Ananias answered, "Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴And now he is here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name." ¹⁵"Go!" said the Lord. "This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel. ¹⁶I will show him how much he must suffer for My name."¹⁷So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. "Brother Saul," he said, "the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized, ¹⁹and after taking some food, he regained his strength. And he spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Acts 20:22, Acts 20:23, Acts 21:11, Isaiah 33:1, Matthew 10:21-25, John 15:20, John 16:1-4, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13, 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, 2 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 2:9, 2 Timothy 2:10, 2 Timothy 3:11

for: Acts 9:14, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 24:9, 1 Peter 4:14, Revelation 1:9

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 3:25 - General Matthew 10:22 - for Matthew 19:29 - my Mark 8:35 - for Mark 13:9 - take Luke 6:22 - for Luke 10:3 - I send Luke 21:17 - for John 14:2 - if John 15:21 - all John 16:4 - that when Acts 9:23 - the Jews Acts 14:19 - having Acts 16:19 - they Acts 26:9 - the name Acts 26:16 - to make 1 Corinthians 4:10 - for Galatians 1:1 - but 1 Thessalonians 3:3 - we are 1 Peter 2:21 - even 1 Peter 3:14 - if 3 John 1:7 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

Genesis 9:9
"Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that was with you-the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth-every living thing that came out of the ark.

Genesis 9:11
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

Genesis 9:21
But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:13
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will show him,.... In vision, and by prophecy, either now, or hereafter; or by facts, as they come upon him:

how great things he must suffer for my name's sake; such as weariness, pain, and watchings, hunger, thirst, fastings, cold, and nakedness, perils on various accounts, and from different quarters, stripes, scourges, imprisonment, shipwreck, stoning, and death, of which he himself gives a detail, 2 Corinthians 11:23 so that Ananias had no reason to be afraid to go to him, and converse with him, and do unto him as he was directed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will show him ... - This seems to be added to encourage Ananias. He had feared Saul. The Lord now informs him that Saul, hitherto his enemy, would ever after be his friend. He would not merely profess repentance, but would manifest the sincerity of it by encountering trials and reproaches for his sake. The prediction here was fully accomplished, Acts 20:23; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27; 2 Timothy 1:11-12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 9:16. How great things he must suffer — Instead of proceeding as a persecutor, and inflicting sufferings on others, I will show him how many things he himself must suffer for preaching that very doctrine which he has been hitherto employed in persecuting. Strange change indeed! And with great show of reason, as with incontrovertible strength of argument, has a noble writer, Lord Lyttleton, adduced the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, and his subsequent conduct, as an irrefragable proof of the truth of Christianity.

Some think that the words, I will show him, c., refer to a visionary representation, which Christ was immediately to give Saul, of the trials and difficulties which he should have to encounter as also of that death by which he should seal his testimony to the truth. If so, what a most thorough conviction must Saul have had of the truth of Christianity, cheerfully and deliberately to give up all worldly honours and profits, and go forward in a work which he knew a violent death was to terminate!