Acts 14:22

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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

Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm,

And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

Exhorting

who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, 'If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

We

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

Then said Jesus to his disciples, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;

'These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known it;

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

Stedfast is the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together;

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

'Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

and I have said to him, 'Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, 'These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

General references

And embitter him -- yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers;