Acts 13:43

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And religious

Acts 2:10

Acts 6:5

Followed

Acts 17:34

Acts 19:9

The grace

General references

Numbers 29:25

Luke 12:52

Bible References

And religious

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

The proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a Gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch.

Followed

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

The grace

So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God's glory.

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Through Silvanus, whom I know to be a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, in order to encourage you and testify that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

General references

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.