Acts 17:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.””
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“For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 17:20 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hosea 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
- Matthew 19:23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Mark 9:10So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.
- Mark 10:24And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
- John 6:60On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
- John 7:35At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
- Acts 2:12Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
- Acts 10:17While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
- 1 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
- 1 Peter 4:4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
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