Acts 9:16

George Lamsa Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

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

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

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

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

New Century Version
I will show him 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."

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."

Berean Standard Bible
I will show him how much he must suffer for 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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Now there was in Damascus a disciple named An-a-ni''as, and the LORD said to him in a vision, An-a-ni''as. And he said, Behold, I am here, my LORD. ¹¹ And our LORD said to him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight and enquire at the house of Judas for Saul of the city of Tarsus: for behold, he is praying, ¹² And he has seen in a vision a man named An-a-ni''as coming in and laying his hand on him to restore his sight. ¹³ Then An-a-ni''as said, My LORD, I have heard from many concerning this man, how much misery he has brought to your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And behold here also he has authority from the high priests to bind all who call on your name. ¹⁵ But the LORD said to him, Arise and go: he is the agent whom I have chosen for myself to carry my name to the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel: ¹⁶ For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name''s sake. ¹⁷ Then An-a-ni''as went to him at the house, and laying his hands on him, said, Saul, my brother, our LORD Jesus, who appeared to you on the way when you were coming, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And in that hour, there fell from his eyes something like scales; and his eyesight was restored; and he arose and was baptized. ¹⁹ And when he had received food, he was strengthened, and he remained 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
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

Genesis 9:4
Only flesh with the life thereof, that is, the blood thereof, you shall not eat.

Genesis 9:8
And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

Genesis 9:9
As for me, behold, I will establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you;

Genesis 9:10
And with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every wild beast of the earth with you; with all that come out of the ark, and with every beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:11
And I will establish my covenant with you; so that never again shall all flesh perish by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

Genesis 9:21
And he drank of its wine, and became drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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

Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, and I will be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:13
He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for 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!