Acts 26:18

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Acts 26:18

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Summary

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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Inheritance

1 Peter 1:4

Sanctified

Faith

General references

Bible References

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So Ananias left and went to that house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said, "Saul, my. brother, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were coming here, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

Then He opened their minds so that they might continue to understand the Scriptures,

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

by having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is to which He calls you, how glorious rich God's portion in His people is,

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if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."

For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."

"The eye is the very lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

a light of revelation to the heathen, and a glory to your people Israel."

It was by Him that life began to exist, and that life was the light of mankind.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going.

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, reflected on the face of Christ.

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?

by having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is to which He calls you, how glorious rich God's portion in His people is,

with darkened understanding, estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and because of the stubbornness of their hearts;

For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise;

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

Yet it is a new command that I am writing you; it is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

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When a strong man well armed keeps guard over his dwelling, his property is secure.

It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

and they might recover their senses and escape from the devil's trap in which they have been caught by him to do his will.

Since then the children mentioned share our mortal nature, He too took on Himself a full share of the same, in order that He by His death might put a stop to the power of him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Whoever practices sin belongs to the devil, because the devil has practiced sin from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared, to undo the devil's works.

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Inheritance

And now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of His favor, which is able to build you up and to give you your proper possession among all God's consecrated people.

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

in union with whom we were made God's portion, since we had been foreordained in accordance with the purpose of Him who in everything carries out the plan of His will,

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

And this is why He is the Mediator of a new covenant, in order that, after He had suffered death for securing redemption from the offenses committed under the first covenant, those who had been invited to share it might obtain the eternal inheritance promised them.

Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

yes, to an inheritance that is imperishable, unsullied, and unfading, which is kept in heaven for you

Sanctified

And now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of His favor, which is able to build you up and to give you your proper possession among all God's consecrated people.

Consecrate them by your truth; your message is truth.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called to be God's people, in fellowship with those who anywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

It is by this will of God that we are consecrated through the offering of Jesus' body once for all.

Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and have been kept through union with Jesus Christ:

Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices abominable living and lying, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

and in this way He put no difference between us and them, because He cleansed their hearts by faith.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

Whoever continues to believe in me will have, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water continuously flowing from within him."

Since we have been given right standing with God through faith, then let us continue enjoying peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.

but without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that there is a God and that He gives rewards to all who earnestly try to find Him.

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"But blessed are your eyes, for they are beginning to see, and your ears, for they are beginning to hear.

It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite to repentance."

Then He opened their minds so that they might continue to understand the Scriptures,

for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.