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 come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

When he had come, and had seen the grace of God, he rejoiced; and he exhorted them all to remain, with purpose of heart, faithful to the Lord.

Now there were certain prophets and teachers in the church that was at Antioch; Barnabas, and Simeon, who is called Niger, and Lucius of Gyrene, and Manaen, who was brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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

For this reason also the Wisdom of God said: I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and persecute,

Since, then, we have gifts which differ according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have the gift of prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

And God has placed some in the church, first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then mighty deeds; then gifts of healing; helps, governments, kinds of tongues.

But he that prophesies speaks to men so as to build them up, to exhort and comfort them.

which, in other generations, was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

And he himself gave some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Despise not prophesyings.

Exhorted

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying: Save yourselves from this wicked generation.

When he had come, and had seen the grace of God, he rejoiced; and he exhorted them all to remain, with purpose of heart, faithful to the Lord.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.

And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

And when he had gone through those regions, and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece.

or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

as indeed you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father his children,

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

We exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, earnestly care for the weak-minded, be of a long-suffering disposition toward all.

Now we command such, and exhort them by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness, and eat their own bread.

I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.

Exhort the young men likewise to be sober-minded,

The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

Confirmed

And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

He also will establish you even to the end, and make you blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ,

and we sent Timothy our brother and minister of God in the gospel of the Christ, in order that he might strengthen and comfort you with respect to your faith,

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.