Acts 17:20

In 9 translations

BSB

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

KJV

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

WEB

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

ASV

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

LSV

for you bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would wish to be”;

YLT

for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

DBY

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

DRC

For thou bringest in certain new things to our ears. We would know therefore what these things mean.

GNV

For thou bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

ξενίζοντα γάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν· βουλόμεθα οὖν γνῶναι τίνα θέλει ταῦτα εἶναι.

RP2018

Ξενίζοντα γάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν· βουλόμεθα οὖν γνῶναι, τί ἂν θέλοι ταῦτα εἶναι-

TR-Boyd

Ξενίζοντα γάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν· βουλόμεθα οὖν γνῶναι, τί ἂν θέλοι ταῦτα εἶναι —

SCR1894

ξενιζοντα γαρ τινα εισφερεις εις τας ακοας ημων βουλομεθα ουν γνωναι τι αν θελοι ταυτα ειναι

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• Hosea 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• John 6:60On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
• Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
• Mark 9:10So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.
• 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.
• Acts 2:12Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”
• Matthew 19:23–25Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter…
• John 7:35–36At 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? What does He mean by saying, ‘You will look…
• Mark 10:24–26And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter…

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