Acts 9:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

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  • Acts 8:1 : 1 And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;
  • John 14:16-18 : 16 and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age; 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you. 18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;
  • Neh 5:9 : 9 And I say, `Not good `is' the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
  • Ps 86:11 : 11 Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.
  • Ps 111:10 : 10 The beginning of wisdom `is' fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise `is' standing for ever!
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
  • Prov 14:26-27 : 26 In the fear of Jehovah `is' strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge. 27 The fear of Jehovah `is' a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
  • Prov 23:17 : 17 Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But -- in the fear of Jehovah all the day.
  • Isa 33:6 : 6 And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it `is' His treasure.
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 because of this, these things -- being absent -- I write, that being present, I may not treat `any' sharply, according to the authority that the Lord did give me for building up, and not for casting down.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
  • Eph 1:13-14 : 13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.
  • Eph 4:12 : 12 unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;
  • Eph 5:21 : 21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.
  • Eph 6:18-19 : 18 through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints -- 19 and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,
  • Phil 2:1 : 1 If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
  • Col 1:10 : 10 to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
  • 1 Thess 5:11 : 11 wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.
  • 2 Thess 2:16-17 : 16 and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace, 17 comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
  • 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,
  • Jude 1:20 : 20 And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
  • Rom 15:13 : 13 and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are. 10 According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it', 11 for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; 12 and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw -- 13 of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare `it', because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; 14 if of any one the work doth remain that he built on `it', a wage he shall receive; 15 if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
  • 1 Cor 14:4-5 : 4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
  • 1 Cor 14:12 : 12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
  • 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,
  • Zech 8:20-9:1 : 20 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet come do peoples, and inhabitants of many cities, 21 Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts -- I go, even I. 22 Yea, come in have many peoples, and mighty nations, To seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, And to appease the face of Jehovah. 23 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: In those days take hold do ten men of all languages of the nations, Yea, they have taken hold on the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying: We go with you, for we heard God `is' with you! 1 The burden of a word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and Demmeseh -- his place of rest: (When to Jehovah `is' the eye of man, And of all the tribes of Israel.)
  • Isa 11:2-3 : 2 Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. 3 To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.
  • Isa 11:10 : 10 And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been -- honour!
  • Prov 16:6-7 : 6 In kindness and truth pardoned is iniquity, And in the fear of Jehovah Turn thou aside from evil. 7 When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
  • Ps 94:13 : 13 To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
  • Esth 8:16-17 : 16 to the Jews hath been light, and gladness, and joy, and honour, 17 and in every province and province, and in every city and city, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, gladness and joy `are' to the Jews, a banquet, and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land are becoming Jews, for a fear of the Jews hath fallen upon them.
  • Deut 12:10 : 10 and ye have passed over the Jordan, and have dwelt in the land which Jehovah your God is causing you to inherit, and He hath given rest to you from all your enemies round about, and ye have dwelt confidently:
  • Josh 21:44 : 44 and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about, according to all that which He hath sworn to their fathers, and there hath not stood a man in their presence of all their enemies, the whole of their enemies hath Jehovah given into their hand;
  • Judg 3:30 : 30 and Moab is humbled in that day under the hand of Israel; and the land resteth eighty years.
  • 1 Chr 22:9 : 9 `Lo, a son is born to thee; he is a man of rest, and I have given rest to him from all his enemies round about, for Solomon is his name, and peace and quietness I give unto Israel in his days;
  • 1 Chr 22:18 : 18 `Is not Jehovah your God with you? yea, He hath given rest to you round about, for He hath given into my hand the inhabitants of the land, and subdued hath been the land before His people.
  • Acts 6:7 : 7 And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 12:24 : 24 And the word of God did grow and did multiply,
  • Acts 16:5 : 5 then, indeed, were the assemblies established in the faith, and were abounding in number every day;

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