Acts 15:32

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Summary

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, 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 old men shall dream dreams;

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 there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul;

'Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- 'According to the proportion of faith!'

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --

and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

prophesyings despise not;

Exhorted

Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation;'

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,

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

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

and having gone through those parts, and having exhorted them with many words, he came to Greece;

or he who is exhorting -- 'In the exhortation!' he who is sharing -- 'In simplicity!' he who is leading -- 'In diligence?' he who is doing kindness -- 'In cheerfulness.'

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

Elders who are among you, I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

Confirmed

and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.

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

And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing is for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him;

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

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the 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;