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

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

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

Exhorting

Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions--if he comes to you, welcome him),

Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

Helped

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

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

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

Believed

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.