Acts 16:14 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁴ One woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple, from the city of Thyatira, who reverenced God, was listening. God opened her heart to receive what was said by Paul.

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Every one who has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me.

²⁰ There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast.

²⁷ He arose and went. Now there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of high rank under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over her treasury. He had been to Jerusalem to worship

² He was a pious man, reverencing God with all his household, doing many acts of charity to the people and praying to God constantly.

²¹ The hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number believed and turned to the Lord.

⁷ So he changed over from there and came into the house of a man named Titus Justus, who reverenced God. His house was next to the synagogue.

¹⁶ So then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So then neither is he who planted anything nor he who watered, but God who makes the seed grow.

¹⁴ but their thinking was dulled. For to this day the same veil remains unlifted when the old covenant is read; because it is done away only in Christ. ¹⁵ To this day when Moses is read the veil lies on their hearts; ¹⁶ "but when they turn to the Lord the veil is taken away."

⁴ in whom the god of this world has blinded the thinking of the unbelieving so that the light of the glorious good news of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine in. ⁵ For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ Because it is the God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts bringing the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of himself, ¹⁸ enlightening the eyes of your heart, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the glorious wealth of his inheritance in the holy,

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both the willing and the doing because of his kindness.

¹⁶ Make no mistake, my beloved brethren, ¹⁷ every good gift and every perfect boon is from above; it descends from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow caused by turning.

¹¹ saying, "What you see write in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."

¹⁸ "To the Angel of the Church in Thyatira write: "These things says the Son of God, he who has eyes like a flame of fire and feet like fine brass: ¹⁹ I know your works and your love and your faith and your service and your endurance, and that your last works are more than your first. ²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my servants to commit unchastity and to eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she will not repent of her unchastity. ²² See, I will cast her into a bed and those who commit adultery with her into great distress, unless they repent of their deeds, ²³ and her children I will surely kill. All the churches shall know that I am he who searches hearts and will give to each of you according to your deeds. ²⁴ But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, as many as do not hold this teaching, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I do not lay on you any other burden.

⁷ "To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write: "These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and who shuts and no one opens:

²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me.