Acts 14:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Exhorting

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General references

Genesis 49:23

Bible References

Confirming

And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.

And having stayed there some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.

Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.

who shall also confirm you to the end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

Exhorting

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.

if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which is under heaven, of which I Paul became minister.

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

We

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

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

But ye are they who have persevered with me in my temptations.

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 life eternal.

These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be offended.

And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

for also, when we were with you, we told you beforehand we are about to be in tribulation, even as also it came to pass, and ye know.)

Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;

The word is faithful; for if we have died together with him, we shall also live together;

And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

Fear nothing of what thou art about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of life.

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

General references

The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;