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

Open

Ananias went his way. He entered the house and put his hands on him and said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared to you along the road sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Open my eyes that I may observe wonderful things from your law.

Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.

The deaf will be able to hear the words of the book read to them. The blind will be freed from gloom and darkness.

Their eyes and ears will be open to the needs of the people.

Then the blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.

You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

Bring the people who are blind but still have eyes, the people who are deaf but still have ears.

The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures.

Jesus said: I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind.

The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

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That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the nations.

Jehovah commanded us with these words: I appoint you as a light to the nations. My salvation will come to the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 49:6)

The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).

He says: It is a small thing that you are my servant. You will raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. I will also make you a light to the nations that my salvation will reach to the end of the earth.

Arise O woman and shine! Your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah beams on you.

The sun of righteousness with it's healing will shine on you who respect my name and obey me. You will be free and paw the ground like fat calves.

the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.

The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eye is clear (simple) (focused) (single minded), your whole body will be full of [spiritual] light.

The light will shine on them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. It will guide our feet into the way of peace.

It is a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.

He lived and his life gives light to all people.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

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

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

Jesus said to them: The light will be with you for a little while. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

God said: Light will shine out of darkness. He shined in our hearts. He gave the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (presence) ((person) of Jesus Christ.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?

Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk (live) (be occupied) as children of light

You do not live in the dark. That day should not overtake you by surprise as a thief would.

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

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Can the prey be taken from the strong man? Can the captives be rescued from the tyrant?

He was oppressed, judged and taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? He was removed from the land of the living. He was destroyed because of the transgression of my people.

When the fully armed strong man guards his own palace, his goods are safe.

He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love (the Son he dearly loves).

They should come to their senses out of the snare of the Devil. He has taken them captive and they do his will.

Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.

He who sins is of the devil. For the devil sinned from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was made known (manifested), that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent that is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Inheritance

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

If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him.

We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will.

Give thanks to the Father, who made us partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant. A death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant. Those called may receive the promise of everlasting inheritance.

Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

You are born to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does not fade away and is reserved in heaven for you.

Sanctified

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

Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.

To the congregation of God at Corinth. To you, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus. You who are called to be holy ones, with all whom in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. He is both their Lord and ours.

That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.

not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration (restoration) (spiritual rebirth) and renewing (renovation) of the Holy Spirit.

We are sanctified by his will 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:

Nothing impure will ever enter it. The shameful and deceitful will not enter. Only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life will enter.

Faith

He made no distinction between them and us and purified their hearts by faith.

Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.

Rivers of living water will flow from the innermost being of the man who believes in me. This is according to the scriptures.

We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.

I want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law, or by having faith in what you heard?

By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God!

Without faith it is impossible to please God. He who comes to God must believe that he is and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

General references

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

A truthful witness saves lives. A deceitful witness speaks lies.

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

Their eyes and ears will be open to the needs of the people.

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

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

He opened their minds that they might understand the scriptures.

You are all the children (sons) of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, not of darkness.