confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.