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.

Open

And to

And from

Inheritance

1 Peter 1:4

Sanctified

Faith

General references

Bible References

Open

And Ananias departed and entered into the house. And having laid hands on him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, he who appeared to thee on the road on which thou came, has sent me so that thou may receive sight, and be filled of Hol

Open thou my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

LORD opens [the eyes of] the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous.

And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall hearken.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

The Spirit of Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good-news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliv

Then he opened their mind to understand the scriptures.

And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those not seeing might see, and those who see might become blind.

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.

having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified.

And to

that the suffering Christ, since first from a resurrection of the dead, is going to proclaim light to our people and to the nations.

For so the Lord has commanded us: I have placed thee for a light of Gentiles, for thee to be for salvation as far as the extremity of the earth.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shone.

yea, he says, It is too light a thing that thou should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou may be my salvation to the e

Arise, shine, for thy light has come, and the glory of LORD has risen upon thee.

But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

the people who dwell in darkness saw a great light, and to those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, light sprang up to them.

The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye is sound, thy whole body will be bright.

to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

a light for enlightenment of Gentiles, and glory of thy people Israel.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?

having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

For ye were once darkness, but now light in Lord. Walk as children of light

But ye, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day would seize you as a thief.

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Again, a new commandment I write to you, which is TRUE in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the TRUE light now shines.

And from

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [was due]?

When the fully armed strong man guards his palace, the things possessed by him are in peace,

Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

Since therefore the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might make him who has the power of death impotent, that is, the devil.

He who is doing sin is of the devil, because the devil sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was made known for this, so that he might destroy the works of the devil.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is set in the evil.

And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, who leads the whole world astray, and bound him a thousand years.

Inheritance

And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

And if children, also heirs, heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer jointly, so that we may also be glorified jointly.

in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will.

Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light.

And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Listen, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him?

for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you,

Sanctified

And now brothers, I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

Sanctify them in thy truth. Thy word is truth.

to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, to called men, to holy men who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus with all in every place who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--both ours and theirs.

And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

By which will we are sanctified through the one time offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

Jude, a bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, sanctified in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

And there will, no, not enter into it anything profane, and doing an abomination and a lie, since they are not written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

And he made not one distinction between both us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou had known the gift of God, and who it is who says to thee, Give me to drink, thou would have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.

He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

I only want to learn this from you. Did ye receive the Spirit from works of law, or from a listening ear of faith?

For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you,

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

General references

O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

A TRUE witness delivers souls, but he who utters lies [causes] deceit.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.

And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall hearken.

But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

Then he opened their mind to understand the scriptures.

Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.