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Peter Addresses the Crowd

Acts 2:28

In 9 translations

BSB
You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’Psalms 16:8–11 (see also LXX)
KJV
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
WEB
You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
ASV
Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance.
LSV
You made known to me ways of life, || You will fill me with joy with Your countenance.
YLT
Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.
DBY
Thou hast made known to me [the] paths of life, thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance.
DRC
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
GNV
Thou hast shewed me the waies of life, and shalt make me full of ioy with thy countenance.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἐγνώρισάς μοι ὁδοὺς ζωῆς, πληρώσεις με εὐφροσύνης μετὰ τοῦ προσώπου σου.
RP2018
Ἐγνώρισάς μοι ὁδοὺς ζωῆς· πληρώσεις με εὐφροσύνης μετὰ τοῦ προσώπου σου.
TR-Boyd
Ἐγνώρισάς μοι ὁδοὺς ζωῆς· πληρώσεις με εὐφροσύνης μετὰ τοῦ προσώπου σου.
SCR1894
εγνωρισας μοι οδους ζωης πληρωσεις με ευφροσυνης μετα του προσωπου σου

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◆ Peter preaches at Pentecost

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 16:11You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
  • Psalms 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
  • Psalms 21:6For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
  • Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
  • Proverbs 2:19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
  • Proverbs 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
  • Psalms 17:15As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
  • John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • Hebrews 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Psalms 21:4He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
  • Psalms 4:6–7Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD. You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
  • John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

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