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Acts 25:27

Acts 25:27 is verse 27 of Acts chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”

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King James Version

For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

World English Bible

For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”

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Acts 25:25–27 · Berean Standard Bible

25 But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

26 I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign one about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.

27 For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 18:13

He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him.

John 7:51

“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

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