Acts 9:16

New Living Translation

And I will show him how much 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.

George Lamsa Translation
For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name''s 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 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 a believer in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling, "Ananias!" "Yes, Lord!" he replied. ¹¹ The Lord said, "Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now. ¹² I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again." ¹³ "But Lord," exclaimed Ananias, "I've heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers in Jerusalem! ¹⁴ And he is authorized by the leading priests to arrest everyone who calls upon your name." ¹⁵ But the Lord said, "Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel. ¹⁶ And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake." ¹⁷ So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸ Instantly something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. ¹⁹ Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days.

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
I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.

Genesis 9:4
But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.

Genesis 9:8
Then God told Noah and his sons,

Genesis 9:9
"I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,

Genesis 9:10
and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.

Genesis 9:11
Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth."

Genesis 9:21
One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.

Genesis 17:7
"I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:13
All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my 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!