Acts 15:32

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Acts 15:32

And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

Being

Exhorted

Confirmed

1 Peter 5:10

Bible References

Being

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream with dreams;

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;

For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,

But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether it be prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

But he that prophesies speaks to men in edification, and encouragement, and consolation.

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

do not lightly esteem prophecies;

Exhorted

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And having stayed there some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.

And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted them with much discourse, he came to Greece.

or he that exhorts, in exhortation; he that gives, in simplicity; he that leads, with diligence; he that shews mercy, with cheerfulness.

as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards all.

Now such we enjoin and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men;

proclaim the word; be urgent in season and out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine.

The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am their fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also am partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

Confirmed

And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.

Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.

And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

who shall also confirm you to the end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to the work of the ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;

and sent Timotheus, our brother and fellow-workman under God in the glad tidings of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith,

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground: