Thematic Bible


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Therefore it is by faith that it may be by grace, that the promise may be sure to all the posterity, not to that of the law only but to that of the faith of Abraham, who is a father of us all, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.








And I also baptized the family of Stephanus; besides I do not know that I baptized any other. Verse ConceptsBaptism, practice ofChristian BaptismBaptizing Infants

While Peter was yet speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritGiftsPreaching, Importance OfSpiritual UnderstandingWhile Still Speakingghosts




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Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things which God has commanded you. Verse ConceptseagernessHearing God's Word





AND a certain man at Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort which was called the Italian, a pious man, and one fearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the people, and praying to God always, saw clearly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, Cornelius. read more.
And looking steadily at him and being afraid, he said, What is wanted, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and charities have come up as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and call for a certain Simon who is called Peter; he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea.

Can any forbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also have? And he commanded that they should be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they desired him to remain some days.

But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed. And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. read more.
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. And asking for a light he sprang in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, and bringing them out said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house. And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and all those in his house. And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately, and conducting them up into his house he set a table, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.