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

and Barnabas having taken him, brought him unto the apostles, and did declare to them how in the way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he was speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.

And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --

and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;

Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

Exhorting

Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands -- if he may come unto you receive him,)

we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

Helped

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,

Believed

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,

through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;

being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with him through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

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