Acts 18:8

World English Bible (2000)

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

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  • Acts 11:14 : 14 who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.'
  • Acts 8:12 : 12 But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
  • Acts 8:35-38 : 35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus. 36 As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?" 37 38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
  • Acts 10:2 : 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
  • Acts 13:15 : 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."
  • Acts 16:14-15 : 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
  • Acts 16:34 : 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
  • Acts 18:17 : 17 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.
  • Rom 10:14-17 : 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  • 1 Cor 1:13-17 : 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name. 16 (I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.) 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
  • Gen 17:27 : 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • Mark 5:22 : 22 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,
  • Mark 5:35 : 35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"
  • Mark 16:15-16 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Acts 2:37-41 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" 38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even 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 crooked generation!" 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

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    29He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

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    32They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

    33He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

    34He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

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    9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;

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    13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

    14I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

    15so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

    16(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)

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    14A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

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    5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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    1After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

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    17Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.

    18Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

    19He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

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    26He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

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    4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

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    7so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

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    23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

    24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

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    42Many believed in him there.

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    14who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.'

  • Mark 16:16
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    16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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    18Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

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    3Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

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    38He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.