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

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And Ananias departed, and came into the house: and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, that appeared to you in the way in which thou didst come, hath sent me, that thou mayest look up, and he filled with the Holy Ghost.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Then He opened their mind, that they might understand the Scriptures.

And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, that those not seeing may see; and those seeing may be made blind.

in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them.

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

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

For thus the Lord has commanded us, I have placed thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shalt be for salvation unto the extremity of the earth.

the people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in the valley and shadow of death, light sprang up.

For the light of the body is the eye. If thine eye may be clear, thy whole body will he lighted.

to appear unto those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace.

a light unto the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

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

And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light; for their works are evil.

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world: the one following me can not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of the life.

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

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk about as you have the light, in order that the darkness may not overtake you: and he that walketh about in darkness does not know where he is going.

Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?

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

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart;

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may overtake you like a thief:

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

Again I do write a new commandment to you, which 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 the strong man armed may keep his palace, his goods are in peace:

who delivered us from the power of darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

and they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him (the Lord's servant) according to his will.

Then since the children have inherited blood and flesh, he likewise also received the same, in order that through death he might set at nought him who has the power of death, that is, the devil;

The one doing sin is of the devil; because the devil sins from the beginning. Unto this the Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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

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

Inheritance

And now I commend you to God and the word of His grace, who is able to edify you, and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together.

in whom we were also chosen by lot, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things within us according to the counsel of his own will;

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us worthy unto a participation of the inheritance of the saints in light;

And on this account he is mediator of the new covenant, since there being death, unto the redemption of the transgressions unto the first covenant, those having been called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love?

unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and never fading, having been kept in the heavens unto you,

Sanctified

And now I commend you to God and the word of His grace, who is able to edify you, and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Sanctify them through the truth: thy word is truth.

to the church of God being in Corinth, to the sanctified in Christ Jesus, to the called saints, along with all who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirs and ours:

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

not from works which are in righteousness, which we did, but according to his own mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost,

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

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called beloved in God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ.

And nothing unclean, and the one doing abomination, and falsehood, can at all enter into it: none except those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

And Jesus responded and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and the one who is speaking to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

The one believing on me, as the Scripture said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.

Therefore having been justified by faith, let us have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

I am crucified along with Christ; and I live no longer, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I only wish to learn this from you, Did you receive the Spirit by works of law, or by hearing of faith?

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

but without faith it is impossible to please him: for it behooves the one coming unto God to believe that he is, and he is a rewarder unto them who seek him out.

General references

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

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Then He opened their mind, that they might understand the Scriptures.

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