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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And Ananias departed, and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.

Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

And in that day shall the deaf 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 them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that 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 them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

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

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,

Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them .

having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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how that the Christ must suffer, and how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.

For so hath the Lord commanded us,'saying , I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest 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 mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee.

But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.

The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.

The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of thy people Israel.

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

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.

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

By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who among them 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 strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace:

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.

But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Inheritance

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

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

in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Sanctified

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

unto the church of God which is at Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be'saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours:

And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

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

By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Jesus answered and said unto unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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

And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

General references

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

A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

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

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

Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;