Acts 10:32

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Therefore send to Joppa for Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’”

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BSBPD

“Therefore send to Joppa for Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Send therefore to Joppa, and call unto thee Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one doth lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to thee;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 10:32 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:16We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
  2. Micah 4:2And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  3. Acts 9:6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
  4. Acts 9:43And Peter stayed for several days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
  5. Acts 10:5Now send men to Joppa to call for a man named Simon who is called Peter.
  6. Acts 11:14He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’
  7. Acts 15:7After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
  8. Acts 16:9During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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