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 he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

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

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

Exhorting

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"),

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

Helped

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

Believed

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

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

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

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

Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.