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Acts 28:4

WEB

4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

KJV

4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

BSB

4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice [+] has not allowed him to live.”

FBV

4When the people there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer. Even though he escaped death from the sea, Justice won't let him live.”

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Extra References

Luke 13:2

2Jesus answered them, Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?


Luke 13:4

4Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed themdo you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?


Acts 28:5

5However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.


Acts 28:2

2The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.


John 7:24

24Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”


John 9:1-2

1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”


Isaiah 43:20

20The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,


Matthew 23:35

35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.


Genesis 9:5-6

5I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. 6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.


Genesis 3:1

1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”