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

We

General references

Genesis 49:23

Bible References

Confirming

Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers and strengthened them with a long message.

And after spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the Galatian territory and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Strengthen the weak hands,
steady the shaking knees!

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,

Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.

Exhorting

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word,

you really are My disciples.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write and exhort you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.

We

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

You are the ones who stood by Me in My trials.

Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

In fact, when we were with you, we told you previously that we were going to suffer persecution, and as you know, it happened.

So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.

This saying is trustworthy:

For if we have died with Him,
we will also live with Him;

In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you as if something unusual were happening to you.

Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I said to him, “Sir, you know.”

Then he told me:

These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
They washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

The archers attacked him,
shot at him, and were hostile toward him.