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 departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.

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

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

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that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'"

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.

he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned."

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

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

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."

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

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, becausethe darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

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Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?

By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe;

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who 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 those who are sanctified.

and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

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

to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept 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 those who are sanctified.

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

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

he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

And by that 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 those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

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

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

General references

O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

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

Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.

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

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

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.