Acts 11:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

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  • Acts 26:28 : 28 And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.
  • 1 Pet 4:16 : 16 But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.
  • Rev 3:18 : 18 If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.
  • 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and true child in the Lord; he will make clear to you my ways in Christ, even as I am teaching everywhere in every church.
  • 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.
  • 1 Cor 12:12 : 12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.
  • 1 Cor 14:23 : 23 If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?
  • Eph 3:15 : 15 From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
  • Acts 6:5 : 5 And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:
  • Acts 11:20 : 20 But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.
  • Acts 11:22 : 22 And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:
  • Acts 11:27 : 27 Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.
  • Acts 13:1-2 : 1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul. 2 And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
  • Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.

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    19 Then those who had gone away at the time of the trouble about Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus, preaching to the Jews only.

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    25 Then he went on to Tarsus, looking for Saul;

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    27 Now in those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

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