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Acts 2:47 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verse 47
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.Acts 2:47 · King James Version
Acts 2:47 in context
45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
46And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
47Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
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Key words (Strong's)
- Praisingaineōto praise, extol, to sing praises in honour to God, to allow, recommend, to promise or vowG134 →
- havingechōto haveG2192 →
- favourcharisgrace, that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness grace of…G5485 →
- peoplelaosa people, people group, tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language…G2992 →
- churchekklēsiaa gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly…G1577 →
- addedprostithēmito put to, to addG4369 →
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We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it, its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-47