Acts 18:27

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Summary

And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:

The brethren

Exhorting

Colossians 4:10

3 John 1:8

Helped

1 Corinthians 3:6

2 Corinthians 1:24

Philippians 1:25

Believed

Bible References

The brethren

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

But I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is minister of the assembly which is in Cenchrea;

And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some, commendatory letters to you, or commendatory from you?

Exhorting

Aristarchus my fellow-captive salutes you, and Mark, Barnabas's cousin, concerning whom ye have received orders, (if he come to you, receive him,)

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.

Helped

I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.

Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

and having confidence of this, I know that I shall remain and abide along with you all, for your progress and joy in faith;

Believed

but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.