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 went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto you in the way as you came, has sent me, that you might receive 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 raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves 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 listen.

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 prison, 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 has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they who see not might see; and that they who see might be made blind.

In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should proclaim light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

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

And he said, It is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the ends of the earth.

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

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up like calves of the stall.

The people who sat in darkness saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.

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

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

Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness?

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

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

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

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

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

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

When a strong man armed keeps his palace, his goods are in peace:

Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Since then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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

Inheritance

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

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

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:

Giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Sanctified

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

Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.

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

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

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;

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

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Faith

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

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

He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, 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.

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

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

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

General references

O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be of an understanding heart.

A true witness delivers souls: but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

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

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

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

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

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.