Acts 7:59 {58}
Good News Translation
They kept on stoning Stephen as he called out to the Lord, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

New Revised Standard Version
While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Contemporary English Version
As Stephen was being stoned to death, he called out, "Lord Jesus, please welcome me!"

New American Bible
As they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

calling.

Acts 2:21 And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Acts 9:14,21 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that invoke thy name. . . .

Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away thy sins, invoking his name.

Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved: for in Mount Sion, and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as the Lord hath said, and in the residue whom the Lord shall call.

Romans 10:12-14 For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.

Lord.

Psalm 31:5 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

Luke 23:46 And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

Context
The Stoning of Stephen
58And casting him forth without the city. they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul. 59And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not his sin to their charge: And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.…
Cross References
1 Kings 21:13
And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people: saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king. Wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

Psalm 31:5
Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Acts 9:14
And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that invoke thy name.

Acts 9:21
And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away thy sins, invoking his name.

Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.

1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.

2 Timothy 2:22
But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Acts 7:58
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