Acts 16:40 Cross References - Wesley

⁴⁰ And coming out of the prison, they entered into the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.

²³ And being let go, they went to their own company, and related all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

¹² And having considered, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John surnamed Mark, where many were gathered together praying. ¹³ And as he knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. ¹⁴ And knowing Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for joy, but running in, told them, that Peter stood before the gate. ¹⁵ And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed, it was so. Then they said, It is his angel. ¹⁶ But Peter continued knocking. And opening the door, they saw him and were astonished. ¹⁷ But he beckoning to them with his hand, to be silent, declared to them, How the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Shew these things to James and to the brethren.

²² Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith; and that we must through many tribulations enter into the kingdom of God.

² Who was well reported of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to assent to the things which were spoken by Paul.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, ⁴ Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. ⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. ⁶ And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effectual in the patient enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. ⁷ And our hope concerning you is stedfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not crushed; ⁹ perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; thrown down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ We who live are always delivered unto death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal body. ¹² So then death worketh in us, but life in you. Yet having the same spirit of faith,

¹⁶ Therefore we faint not, but even though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory: ¹⁸ While we aim not at the things that are seen, but the things that are not seen: for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal.

² And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God and our fellow-worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, ³ That no one might be moved by these afflictions; for ye know that we are appointed hereto.