Acts 9:6 Cross References - Living_Oracles

⁶ but arise, and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.

³⁰ But many shall be first that are last, and last that are first.

¹⁰ Upon this, the multitude asked him, What must we do then?

³⁷ Now, when they heard these things, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go your way; for this man is to me a chosen vessel, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the children of Israel: ¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name.

⁶ he lodges with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside.

²² And they said, Cornelius, the centurion, a righteous man, who fears God, and has a character attested by all the Jewish people, has been instructed, by a holy messenger, to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you.

³² send, therefore, to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he lodges in the house of one Simon, a tanner, by the seaside; who, when he is come, shall speak to you.

¹³ and he told us how he had seen a messenger standing in his house, and saying to him, Send to Joppa, and bring hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; ¹⁴ who shall speak words to you, by which you and all your family shall be saved.

²⁹ And he called for lights, and sprung in; and, being in a tremor, fell down before Paul and Silas; ³⁰ and, bringing them out, he said, O Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

¹⁰ And I said, Lord, what shall I do? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told you of all things, which are appointed for you to do.

²⁵ And he reasoned concerning righteousness and temperance, and judgment to come, Felix, trembling, answered, Go your way for this time, and I will take some future opportunity to call for you. ²⁶ And he hoped, also, that money would be given him by Paul, that he might be set at liberty: and, therefore, he sent the more frequently for him, and discoursed with him.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon your feet, for to this purpose I have appeared to you, to ordain you a minister and a witness, both of the things which you have seen, and of those which I will hereafter show you:

²⁰ Moreover, the law supervened, that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, favor superabounded-

⁹ For I was alive, once, without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

¹⁵ By no means. For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." ¹⁶ So, then, it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs; but of God, who shows mercy. ¹⁷ Besides, the scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have roused you up; that I might show, in you, my power; and that my name might be published through all the earth." ¹⁸ Well, then, he has mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardens. ¹⁹ But you will say to me, Why does he still find fault, for who has resisted his will? ²⁰ Nay, but, O man, who are you, who reply against God? Shall the thing formed, say to him who formed it, Why have you made me thus? ²¹ Has not the potter a just power over the clay, to make of the same lump one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor? ²² Yet God, willing to show his wrath, and make know his power, did bear, with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction. ²³ And that he might make known the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory: ²⁴ even us, whom he has called; not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.

³ for being ignorant of God's justification, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to the justification which is of God.

²⁰ Besides, Isaiah is very bold when he says, "I am found by them, who did not seek me: I am shown to them, who did not ask for me."

¹⁵ But when God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his favor, was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son to me, that I might declare the good news concerning him to the Gentiles; immediately I did not consult flesh and blood:

¹² Wherefore, my beloved, since you have always obeyed, not in my presence only, but now much more in my absence; effectually work out your own salvation, with fear and trembling;

¹⁴ and the favor of the Lord has superabounded, with the faith and love which is by Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ This saying is true, and worthy of all reception, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ¹⁶ However, for this cause I received mercy, that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who should believe on him, in order to everlasting life.

⁶ But he gives greater favor. For it says, "God resists the proud, but gives favor to the humble."