Acts 16:31

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They replied,“Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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  • Isa 45:22 : 22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.
  • John 1:12 : 12 But to all who have received him– those who believe in his name– he has given the right to become God’s children
  • Acts 2:38-39 : 38 Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
  • Acts 11:13-14 : 13 He informed us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying,‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, 14 who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”
  • Acts 15:11 : 11 On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.
  • Gal 3:26 : 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.
  • Eph 2:7-8 : 7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
  • 1 John 5:10-13 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.) 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life. 13 Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
  • Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
  • Acts 4:12 : 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”
  • Acts 8:36 : 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”
  • John 3:15-16 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • Acts 16:32 : 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.
  • Acts 18:8 : 8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.
  • Rom 5:1-2 : 1 The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given– because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ– to those who believe.
  • Jer 32:39 : 39 I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for their own good and the good of the children who descend from them.
  • Hab 2:4 : 4 Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • John 6:47 : 47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.
  • John 7:37-38 : 37 Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

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    32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.

    33 At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

    34 The jailer brought them into his house and set food before them, and he rejoiced greatly that he had come to believe in God, together with his entire household.

    35 At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”

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    12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

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    14 who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.’

    15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

    16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

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    28 But Paul called out loudly,“Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”

    29 Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

    30 Then he brought them outside and asked,“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

  • 11 On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

  • 15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.

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    10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

  • 13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

  • 21 And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

  • 8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

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    36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

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    38 Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

    39 For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

    40 With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying,“Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

  • 42 This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

  • 53 Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him,“Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.

  • 42 Jesus said to him,“Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”

  • 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers,“Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

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  • 26 Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

  • 28 “Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

  • 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

  • 6 But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”

  • 48 So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

  • 25 Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

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  • 50 He said to the woman,“Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

  • 27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

  • 21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

  • 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”