Acts 14:22

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Summary

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Confirming

1 Peter 5:10

Exhorting

We

Bible References

Confirming

And Judas and Silas, who were also prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words, and strengthened them.

And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

He also will establish you even to the end, and make you blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and we sent Timothy our brother and minister of God in the gospel of the Christ, in order that he might strengthen and comfort you with respect to your faith,

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.

Exhorting

When he had come, and had seen the grace of God, he rejoiced; and he exhorted them all to remain, with purpose of heart, faithful to the Lord.

Now, after the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them, and persuaded them to continue faithful to the grace of God.

Then said Jesus to those Jews that believed on him: If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed,

Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

We

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and children will rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

You are they that have continued with me in my trials;

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to eternal life.

These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be ensnared.

and, if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

for even when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, as it also came to pass, and as you know.

Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner: but jointly suffer evil in the gospel according to the power of God,

Assuredly true is the saying: If indeed we have died with him, we shall also live with him;

And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial that has come on you to try you, as if some strange thing had happened to you.

Fear none of the things which you are about to suffer; behold, the devil will throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And I said to him: Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who have come out of great affliction, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.