Acts 16:5

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Acts 16:5

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

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and he passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the Churches.

To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,

Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.

As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;

and sent Timothy our brother and God's minister in the service of Christ's Good News, that he might help you spiritually and encourage you in your faith;

And may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself--and God our Father who has loved us and has given us in His grace eternal consolation and a bright hope--

Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.

And God, the giver of all grace, who has called you to share His eternal glory, through Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong.

Increased

praising God and being regarded with favour by all the people. Also, day by day, the Lord added to their number those whom He was saving.

But many of those who had listened to their preaching believed; and the number of the adult men had now grown to be about 5,000.

and more and more believers in the Lord joined them, including great numbers both of men and women--

Meanwhile God's Message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem very greatly increased, and very many priests obeyed the faith.

The Church, however, throughout the whole of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria, had peace and was spiritually built up; and grew in numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and receiving encouragement from the Holy Spirit.

The power of the Lord was with them, and there were a vast number who believed and turned to the Lord.

But God's Message prospered, and converts were multiplied.

The Gentiles listened with delight and extolled the Lord's Message; and all who were pre-destined to the Life of the Ages believed.

Many also of those who believed came confessing without reserve what their conduct had been,