Acts 10:22 Cross References - MLV

²² Now they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and fearing God, being well testified of by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely-warned by a holy messenger to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.

⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right and the just will walk in them. But transgressors will fall in them.

⁴ Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man will live by his faith.)

¹⁹ Now Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man and not willing to disgrace her, planned to divorce her secretly.

²⁰ for Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and was protecting him. And having heard him, he was doing many things, and was gladly hearing him, often.

³⁸ For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this generation, the adulteress and sinner, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, whenever he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy messengers.

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

⁴ Now when they came to Jesus, they were pleading with him diligently, saying, He is worthy that you will be providing this for him; ⁵ for he loves our nation and he built us our synagogue.

⁵⁰ And behold, a man, Joseph by name, who is a counselor, a good and righteous man

²⁴ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who hears my word and believes in the one who sent me, has everlasting life, and is not coming into judgment, but has stepped out of death into the life.

⁶³ It is the spirit who is giving-life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.

⁶⁸ Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of everlasting life.

²⁰ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who receives anyone, whomever I send, receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.

⁸ because the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them and they have known truly that I came forth from you and they have believed that you sent me.

²⁰ I am not requesting concerning these only, but concerning those who also believe in me through their word;

³ Therefore brethren, elect out of you seven men well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we might designate over this need.

² a devout man, who feared God together with all his house and doing much charity for the people and always beseeching God.

⁶ He is lodging with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the sea. He will tell you something that is essential for you to do. \ulnone\nosupersub

³³ Therefore, promptly I sent for you, and having come, you did well. Therefore, now we are all here in God’s sight, to hear all things which have been commanded to you by God.

¹⁴ who will be speaking the words to you in which you will be saved, you and all your house.

¹² Now a certain one named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, being testified of by all the Jews dwelling there,

¹⁵ I have hope toward God, which these themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and unrighteous.

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to

¹⁷ Consequently, the faith comes from our report but our report comes through the declaration of God. ¹⁸ But I am saying, ‘Did they not hear?’But-rather, ‘Their sounds went out into all the earth and their declarations to the ends of the inhabited-earth.’

¹⁸ But all things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave the service of reconciliation to us;

⁷ But it is also essential for him to have a good testimony from those who are outside the congregation; in order that he may not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

{‘Unimpeachable,’(below, G423), ‘irreproachable,’(Tit 1, G410), are both in the qualifications of the Lord’s earthly congregation’s leadership, described in various Bible versions and locations within as: elders, bishops, overseers, pastors, shepherds, presbyters; (all terms are always plural in the Bible). These words do not translate well into English. They are simply a description of a person not under an accusation by an enemy or legal system or better as under any kind of accusation, this person is blameless, guiltless and has an impeccable reputation. Another note: ‘children’is plural in Greek.}

³⁸ But my righteous one will be living from faith and if he retreats back, my soul does not delight in him.’

² For the elders were witnessed in this;

²³ to the festal-gathering and to the congregation of the firstborn ones, who have been registered in the heavens and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous who have been completed,

² to be reminded of the declarations which have been spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments from your apostles of the Lord and Savior.

¹² As for Demetrius, he has been testified of by all and by the truth itself. But we also are testifying and you know that our testimony is true.