Acts 18:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And when Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

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  • Acts 17:3 : 3 Opening and explaining that Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is Christ.
  • Acts 18:28 : 28 for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died:
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding it in. I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.
  • Ezek 3:14 : 14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
  • Acts 17:14-16 : 14 And immediately the brothers sent Paul away to go to the sea: but Silas and Timothy stayed there still. 15 And those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens: and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they departed. 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the city was fully given to idolatry.
  • Acts 2:36 : 36 Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.
  • Acts 9:22 : 22 But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Messiah.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better;
  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me. 19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no outlet; it is ready to burst like new wineskins. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
  • 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 And sent Timothy, 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:
  • 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
  • Acts 10:42 : 42 And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.
  • Acts 15:22 : 22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also called Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.
  • Acts 16:1 : 1 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain woman who was a Jew and believed; but his father was a Greek.
  • Acts 16:9 : 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, Come over to Macedonia and help us.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
  • Dan 9:25-26 : 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
  • Luke 12:50 : 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!
  • John 1:41 : 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, We have found the Messiah, (which is translated, the Christ.)
  • John 3:28 : 28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.
  • John 10:24 : 24 Then the Jews surrounded him and said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.
  • John 15:27 : 27 And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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    19And when he had greeted them, he declared in detail what things God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.

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    23And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening.

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    10And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea: who, when they arrived, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

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    21testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    21After these things ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

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    18And saw him saying to me, Make haste and get quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.

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    21For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and attempted to kill me.

    22Having therefore obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come:

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    23except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me.

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    40but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God.

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    20And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.