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, also being prophets themselves, exhorted the brothers with many words and confirmed them.

And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went over the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

Make the weak hands strong and make the feeble knees sure.

He shall also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, He will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

Exhorting

who was glad when he had come and had seen the grace of God. And he exhorted all with purpose of heart to remain near to the Lord.

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

Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on Him, If you continue in My Word, you are My disciples indeed.

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

We

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

Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

You are those who have continued with Me in My trials.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?

He who loves his life shall lose it. And he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

I have spoken these things to you so that you should not be offended.

And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.

For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we were going to suffer affliction, as it also happened, even you know.

Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,

For faithful is the Word, for if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him.

Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and an archer lurks for him.