Acts 16:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

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  • Ps 77:6 : 6 I said,“During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.
  • Jas 1:2 : 2 Joy in Trials My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,
  • 1 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials. 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
  • Job 35:10 : 10 But no one says,‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
  • Ps 119:62 : 62 In the middle of the night I arise to thank you for your just regulations.
  • Eph 5:19 : 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
  • Phil 4:4-7 : 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice! 5 Let everyone see your gentleness. The Lord is near! 6 Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 3:15-17 : 15 Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart(for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
  • 1 Thess 5:16-18 : 16 Always rejoice, 17 constantly pray, 18 in everything give thanks. For this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
  • Ezra 3:12-13 : 12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders– older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established– were weeping loudly, and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout. 13 People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly that the sound was heard a long way off.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.
  • Ps 119:55 : 55 I remember your name during the night, O LORD, and I will keep your law.
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
  • Ps 34:1 : 1 Written by David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, causing the king to send him away. I will praise the LORD at all times; my mouth will continually praise him.
  • Ps 42:8 : 8 By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the God of my life.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”
  • Ps 71:7 : 7 Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.
  • Ps 77:2 : 2 In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.
  • Isa 30:29 : 29 You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the LORD, the Rock who shelters Israel.
  • Zech 3:8 : 8 Listen now, Joshua the high priest, both you and your colleagues who are sitting before you, all of you are a symbol that I am about to introduce my servant, the Branch.
  • Matt 5:10-11 : 10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them. 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.
  • Matt 26:38-39 : 38 Then he said to them,“My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.” 39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed,“My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
  • Luke 6:22-23 : 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.
  • Rom 5:3 : 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.
  • 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,
  • 2 Cor 4:16-17 : 16 Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
  • 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.
  • Jas 5:13 : 13 Prayer for the Sick Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

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