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

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Inheritance

1 Peter 1:4

Sanctified

Faith

General references

Bible References

Open

And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Open my eyes, so that I may behold wonderful things out of Your Law.

the Lord opens the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raises those who are bowed down; Jehovah 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 their gloom and darkness.

And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who 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, those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

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

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,

And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

And Jesus said, I have come into this world for judgment, that they who do not see might see, and that they who see might be made blind.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on 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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whether the Christ was liable to suffer, whether first by a resurrection of the dead He was going to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "I have set You to be a light of the nations, for salvation to the end of the earth."

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; they who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

And He said, It is but a little thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light to the nations, to be My salvation to the end of the earth.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you.

But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise, and healing will be on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.

The people who sat in darkness saw a great Light; and Light has sprung up to those who sat in the region and shadow of death."

The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall 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 nations, 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 the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.

Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who 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 to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness come upon you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes.

For it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have 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 you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the Day should overtake you like a thief.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, 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 He was stricken.

When the strong man, fully armed, guards his dwelling, his goods are in peace.

For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;

and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),

He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the Devil.

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

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of 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, brothers, 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 those who are sanctified.

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

in whom also we have been chosen to an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

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

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

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?

to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in Heaven for you

Sanctified

And now, brothers, 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 those who are sanctified.

Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

to the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called out with all those in every place who call on 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, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

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

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the ones called in God the Father, having been set apart, and having been kept by Jesus Christ:

And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, or any making an abomination or a lie; but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Faith

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

Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.

He who believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, "Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith toward the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

For by grace you are 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 who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

General references

O simple ones, understand wisdom; and, fools, be of an understanding heart.

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

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

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

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

I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.