Acts 26:18

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Acts 26:18

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Summary

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Open

And to

And from

Inheritance

1 Peter 1:4

Sanctified

Faith

General references

Bible References

Open

And Ananias went, and entered the house, and laying his hands on him, said: Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed;

Then he opened their mind, that they might understand the scriptures,

And Jesus said: For judgment have I come into this world, that those who see not, may see; and that those who see, may become blind.

whose unbelieving minds the god of this age has darkened, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine to them.

that, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints,

And to

that Christ should suffer, and that he first, by his resurrection from the dead, should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.

For thus has the Lord given us commandment: I have placed thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation to the most distant part of the earth.

the people that sat in darkness saw great light; and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has risen.

The lamp of the body is the eye: if, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be light:

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, by guiding our feet in the way of peace.

a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Then Jesus said to them: Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. For he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.

Because God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness?

that, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints,

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

For you were formerly darkness; but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

Again, a new commandment I do write to you, which is true as it respects him and you; because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

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When the strong man armed keeps guard over his palace, his goods are in peace;

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,

and that they may awake to sobriety out of the snare of the devil, after having been taken captive by him according to his will.

Since, then, the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, in like manner, partook of the same, that, through his death, he might deprive of power him that has the power of death, that is, the devil;

He that works sin is of the devil, for the devil sins from the beginning: for this purpose was the son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the wicked one.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

And he laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Inheritance

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

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.

in him in whom we have obtained our portion, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light:

And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant: that, since his death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions that were under the former covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Hear, my be loved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him?

in respect to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us,

Sanctified

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

By which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are sanctified in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

And there shall not enter it any thing unclean, or that does what is detestable, or that makes a lie: but those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

and he made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Jesus answered and said to her: If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, from his inner self shall flow rivers of living water.

Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live; no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

This only I wish to learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

General references

But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.

Then he opened their mind, that they might understand the scriptures,

You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.