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Acts 16:30-31 KJV
Acts · chapter 16 · verses 30–31 · King James Version
30And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.Acts 16:30-31 · King James Version
Acts 16:30-31 in context
28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
29Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
30And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
32And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
33And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
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- broughtproagōto lead forward, lead forth, one from a place in which he has lain hidden from view, as…G4254 →
- Believepisteuōto think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in, of the thing…G4100 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
- savedsōzōto save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction, one , to save a…G4982 →
- saidphēmito make known one's thoughts, to declare, to sayG5346 →
- Sirskyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
- saideiponto speak, sayG2036 →
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We have here the designs of the persecutors of Paul and Silas baffled and broken. I. The persecutors designed to dishearten and discourage the preachers of the gospel, and to make them sick of the cause and weary of their work; but here we find them both hearty and heartened. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-34