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 related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

Now I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is also a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

And whenever I arrive, whomever you approve by letters, I will send these to take your gift to Jerusalem.

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

Exhorting

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

Therefore we ought to support such [people], so that we become fellow workers with [the] truth.

Helped

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing [it] to grow.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

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

Believed

But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,

through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this [is] not from yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;

because to you has been graciously granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on behalf of him,

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

But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers [dearly] loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [as] first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,

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

Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.

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