.
S
i t e S e a r c h
A_B_C_D_E_F_G_H_I_J_K_L_M_N_O_P_Q_R_S_T_U_V_W_XYZ
List
of Topics__Ask
Suby__Free
Stuff__Questions
Lists
Terms
of Use__________________Privacy
Policy
Bible
books history index
Acts
14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into
the synagogue of the people of Judah and so spake, that a great multitude
both of them and also of the Greeks believed.
Acts
14:2 But the unbelieving ones who called themselves 'Jews'
stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the
brethren.
Acts
14:3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which
gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted signs and wonders
to be done by their hands.
Acts
14:8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being
a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
Acts
14:9 The same heard Paul speak, who stedfastly beholding him and perceiving
that he had faith to be healed,
Acts
14:10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped
and walked.
Acts
14:11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their
voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The Gods are come down to us
in the likeness of men.
Acts
14:12-14 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter and Paul,they called Mercurius,
because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was
before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates and would have
done sacrifice with the people, but when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul,
heard of it, they rent
their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out,
Acts
14:15 And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of
like passions with you and preach unto you that you should turn from these
vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and Earth and the sea
and all things that are therein.
Acts
14:16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Their
own ways became steeped
in worshipping many
Gods and in this ignorance (Acts 17:30)
of worshipping worthless Gods concocted
with their own hands, was opportunityfor
listening
for lessons to the many
prompts pointing toward why here on Earth,
one lesson being the seeing that these Gods really had no power and that
the true God was available.
Acts
14:17,18 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that
he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling
our hearts with food and gladness. And with these sayings scarce
restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
Acts
14:19 And there came from Antioch and Iconium others who
called themselves 'Jews' and persuaded some people to stone Paul and
having done that, they dragged him out of the city supposing he had been
dead.
Acts
14:20,21 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up
and came into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many,
they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and Antioch,
Acts
14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue
in the faith and that we must through much tribulation.(*).enter
into the kingdom of God.
An
alternate translation:."Strengthening
the souls of the disciples
in continuing
in the faith, as it's necessary to strive
to enter into.(more
on.'strive to
enter':.2Timothy
2:5).the
kingdom of God, wherein is salvation."
Acts
14:23-26 And when they had ordained them elders in every church and
had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they
believed. And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia.
And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to
the grace of God for the work
which they fulfilled.
Acts
14:27 And when they were come and had gathered the church together,
they rehearsed all that God had done with them and how he had opened the
door of faith unto the Gentiles.
Acts
14:28 And there they abode long time with the disciples.
.
|