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Acts 9:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,

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Arise.

Acts 8:26• ²⁶But the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Rise up and go southward on the way which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza: the same is desert. (Acts 8:26)

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Acts 10:5‑6• ⁵And now send men to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter.
⁶He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. (Acts 10:5‑6)

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Acts 11:13• ¹³and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying to him, Send men to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter, (Acts 11:13)

Saul.

Acts 9:30• ³⁰And the brethren knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus. (Acts 9:30)

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Acts 11:25• ²⁵And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul. (Acts 11:25)

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Acts 21:39• ³⁹But Paul said, *I* am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me to speak to the people. (Acts 21:39)

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Acts 22:3• ³*I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as *ye* are all this day; (Acts 22:3)

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Acts 2:21• ²¹And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Acts 2:21)

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Acts 8:22• ²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee; (Acts 8:22)

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Deut. 4:29• ²⁹And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul. (Deut. 4:29)

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2 Chron. 33:12‑13,18‑19• ¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
¹³and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God.
¹⁸And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they are written in the acts of the kings of Israel.
¹⁹And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai. (2 Chron. 33:12‑13,18‑19)

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Job 33:18‑28• ¹⁸He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.
¹⁹He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;
²⁰And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;
²¹His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;
²²And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
²³If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his duty;
²⁴Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
²⁵His flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.
²⁶He shall pray unto +God, and he will receive him with favour; and he shall see his face with shoutings, and he will render unto man his righteousness.
²⁷He will sing before men, and say, I have sinned, and perverted what was right, and it hath not been requited to me;
²⁸He hath delivered my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light. (Job 33:18‑28)

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Psa. 32:3‑6• ³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
⁴For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
⁵I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
⁶For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him. (Psa. 32:3‑6)

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Psa. 40:1‑2• ¹To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm. I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
²And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings: (Psa. 40:1‑2)

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Psa. 50:15• ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psa. 50:15)

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Psa. 130:1‑3• ¹A Song of degrees. Out of the depths do I call upon thee, Jehovah.
²Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
³If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand? (Psa. 130:1‑3)

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Prov. 15:8• ⁸The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; but the prayer of the upright is his delight. (Prov. 15:8)

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Isa. 55:6‑7• ⁶Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isa. 55:6‑7)

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Jer. 29:12‑13• ¹²And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;
¹³and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart, (Jer. 29:12‑13)

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Jer. 31:18‑20• ¹⁸I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth.
²⁰Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:18‑20)

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Jonah 2:1‑4• ¹And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly;
²and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.
³For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
⁴And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple. (Jonah 2:1‑4)

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Zech. 12:10• ¹⁰And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (Zech. 12:10)

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Matt. 7:7‑8• ⁷Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
⁸For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. (Matt. 7:7‑8)

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Luke 11:9‑10• ⁹And *I* say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
¹⁰For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it will be opened. (Luke 11:9‑10)

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Luke 18:7‑14• ⁷And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?
⁸I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?
⁹And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:
¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.
¹¹The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.
¹²I fast twice in the week, I tithe everything I gain.
¹³And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.
¹⁴I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than that other. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:7‑14)

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Luke 23:42‑43• ⁴²And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou comest in thy kingdom.
⁴³And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:42‑43)

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John 4:10• ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (John 4:10)

• A circumstance so much the more striking because, in a vision, Saul had seen him come and restore his sight. (“Acts 9:1-31” by J.N. Darby)

• His eye of love is on the praying at such a house in such a street, no less than on the vast sweep of Christian life and service from Arabia to Damascus. (“Acts 9:10-19” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, he is of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

W. Kelly Translation

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And the Lord [said] unto him, Rise up, and go to the lane that is called Straight, and seek in Judas’ house one of Tarsus named Saul; for behold he prayeth