Acts 16:40 Cross References - WPNT

⁴⁰ So exiting the prison they entered Lydia’s place, and upon seeing the brothers they encouraged them and departed.

²³ So upon being released they went to their own group and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

¹² Upon reflection he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John (the one called Mark), where a considerable number had gathered and were praying. ¹³ When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. ¹⁴ Upon recognizing Peter’s voice, she was so glad she didn’t open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing before the gate! ¹⁵ But they said to her, “You’re crazy!” but she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, “It is his angel”. ¹⁶ But Peter kept on knocking; so when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded. ¹⁷ Motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. Then he said, “Tell these things to James and the brothers”. And going out he went off to a different place.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God”.

² he was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

¹⁴ A certain woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, really listened, whose heart the Lord opened to give heed to the things spoken by Paul.

³ All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement, ⁴ who encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God. ⁵ Because just as the sufferings of the Christ flow over into us, so also our encouragement overflows, through Christ. ⁶ Now then, if we are afflicted, it is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, that are effective for enduring the same sufferings that we also are suffering ⁷ (yes, our hope concerning you is steadfast); if we are encouraged, it also is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, since we know that you will share in the encouragement just as you do in the sufferings.

⁸ —we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, but not out; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart—even though our outer man is wasting away, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day— ¹⁷ because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory, ¹⁸ as we do not focus on the seen, but on the not seen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, also our fellow worker in the Gospel of Christ, to confirm you and encourage you concerning your faith, ³ that no one be unsettled by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.