Acts 18:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Barnabas, however, took him and brought him to the apostles and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and that He had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae.

When I arrive, I will send with letters those you recommend to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

Exhorting

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, as does Mark, Barnabas’s cousin (concerning whom you have received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),

Therefore, we ought to support such men so that we can be coworkers with the truth.

Helped

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

I do not mean that we have control of your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand by faith.

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Since I am persuaded of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

Believed

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations,

on behalf of His name,

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

For it has been given to you on Christ’s behalf not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love
for mankind appeared,

Don’t be deceived, my dearly loved brothers.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you.