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 hew he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church at Cenchreae;

And when I am with you, I will send with letters whomever you may approve to carry your bounty to Jerusalem;

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

Exhorting

Aristarchus, my fellowprisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom ye received directions (if he come to you, receive him),

We therefore ought to sustain such persons, that we may be fellowworkers for the truth.

Helped

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

not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. For in respect to faith ye stand firm.

And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your advancement and joy in your faith,

Believed

But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God,to those who believed in his name;

through whom we received grace and the office of an apostle in behalf of his name, in order to produce obedience to the faith among all nations;

But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For by grace ye have been saved, through faith; and this is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God;

for to you it was given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but in his behalf to suffer also;

having been buried with him in your baptism; in which also ye were raised to life with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead;

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth;

But when the kindness and love for men of God our Saviour appeared,

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

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