Acts 16:31
What meaning of the acts 16:31 in the Bible?
What does Acts 16:31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
What does Acts 16:31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
Verse 31. _BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS_] Receive the religion of Christ, which we preach, and let thy household also receive it, and ye shall be all placed in the sure way to final salvation....
BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST - This was a simple, a plain, and an effectual direction. They did not direct him to use the means of grace, to pray, or to continue to seek for salvation. They did no...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe (Act...
IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts 16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi, which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
BELIEVE. Greek. _pisteuo._ App-150. CHRIST. The texts omit. Compare Matthew 1:21. THY HOUSE: i.e. on the same condition of faith....
_Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ_ The oldest authorities omit _Christ_. The word would not have the same significance for a Gentile as for a Jew, and may well have been omitted in the address to the...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
ΕΊΠΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΠΊΣΤΕΥΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) верить, начинать верить или доверять кому-л. _Aor. imper._ призывает к специфическому действию с оттен...
DISCOURSE: 1787 THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILOR Acts 16:29. _Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, wha...
AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE, &C.— "Humbly trust in, and fully commit thyself to the protection of that great and only Saviour whom we preach, _and thou and thine house_ will be brought into the sure way to...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were i...
31, 32. Leading the brethren into his family apartment, he received a full and satisfactory answer to his question. (31) "_They said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your...
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. [Lachmann and Tischendorf omit Christon (G5547) from their...
19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
16:31 on (f-5) See Note, ch. 9.42....
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS Christ. — The plural pronoun is not without significance. St. Paul was not the only teacher. Silvanus also took part in the work of conversion. The words have...
CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, following...
ἐπὶ τὸν Κ.: “non agnoscunt se _dominos_ ” Bengel they point him to the One Lord. οἶκος … οἰκίᾳ : the first word is most frequently used in Attic Greek, and in the N.T. for household, _cf._ Acts 16:15,...
SALVATION IN THE JAIL Acts 16:25 Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge of salvation may have reached...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Conversion of the Jailor At midnight, while the other prisoners listened to Paul and Silas singing and praying, a great earthquake shook open all the prison doors and released all those bound in...
The awakened and panic-stricken jailer, knowing that cruel Roman law will require his life as substitute for the fugitive prisoner, in the absence of Bible light on suicide, and with the noble example...
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and i...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
_PAUL’S ADVICE TO THE JAILER_ ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt he saved, and thy house.’ Acts 16:31 Some assert that this heathen jailer could know nothing about salvation through...
− 31._Believe in the Lord Jesus. _This is but a short, and, to look to, a cold and hungry definition of salvation, and yet it is perfect to believe in Christ. For Christ alone hath all the parts of bl...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,.... Not with a bare historical faith, as only to believe that he was the Son of God, and the Messiah, and that he was come in the flesh, and had suffer...
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Ver. 31. _Believe on the Lord Jesus_] This is the condition on our part required; or rather a stipulation that...
_And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ_ Whom it is our office to preach as the great and only Saviour; and confide wholly in him for salvation; loving, obeying, and living to his glory. As P...
THY HOUSE; thy family....
The conversion of the jailer:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
SO THEY SAID, " BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND YOU WILL BE SAVED, YOU AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD. " 1. They told the jailer to BELIEVE. 2. Some have suggested that baptism is not important because it...
"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house"Believe on the Lord Jesus" Unfortunately many people stop right here and assume that one is saved at the moment t...
25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may...
BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST; this is the sum of the gospel. Christ, apprehended by faith, serves for wisdom, _righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, _ as 1 CORINTHIANS 1:30. But then this...
31, 32. Leading the brethren into his family apartment, he received a full and satisfactory answer to his question. (31) "_ They said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and you...
Acts 16:31 So G1161 said G2036 (G5627) Believe G4100 (G5657) on G1909 Lord G2962 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 and G2532 you G4771 saved G4982 (G5701) and G2532 your G4675 household G3624 Believe - Acts 2...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of...
Acts 16:31. AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED, AND THY HOUSE. The question of the jailor evidently implies that he was acquainted in some measure with the genera...
TO BE SAVED (ινα σωθω). Final clause with ινα and first aorist passive subjunctive. What did he mean by "saved"? Certainly more than escape from peril about the prisoners or because of the earthqua...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
Acts 16:29 Note: I. What a "manifold wisdom" is the wisdom of God! how infinitely various are His ways in the work of the conversion of souls and the bringing of sinners to Himself! One is never more...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
AND FELL TREMBLING. He is convinced they are under divine protection! WHAT MUST I DO? Paul's answer to this question shows the jailer knew they preached a new religion. BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS. This...
_Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling._ THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER I. The state of his mind before conversion. 1. He was a careless sinner. This appears not so much from his offi...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates (Luke 12:58). Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 John 5:10; Acts 11:13; Acts 11:14; Acts 13:38; Acts 13:39; Acts 15:11; Acts 2:38; Acts 2:39; Acts 4:12; Acts 8:37;...
Thou shalt be saved and thy household — If ye believe. They did so, and were saved....