Acts 5:14 Cross References

Acts 5:14

14: And more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord--crowds of both men and women.

all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved.

So on October 8 Ezra the priest brought the scroll of the law before the assembly, which included the men and women and all the children old enough to understand.

With you are your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
You are standing here today to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God. The LORD is making this covenant with you today, and he has sealed it with an oath.

He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them--both men and women--back to Jerusalem in chains.

Saul was going everywhere to devastate the church. He went from house to house, dragging out both men and women to throw them into jail.

Both men and women came, all whose hearts were willing. Some brought to the LORD their offerings of gold--medallions, earrings, rings from their fingers, and necklaces. They presented gold objects of every kind to the LORD.

But now the people believed Philip's message of Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. As a result, many men and women were baptized.

Then he gave a gift of food to every man and woman in Israel: a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins. Then everyone went home.

Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church--about three thousand in all.

you must read this law to all the people of Israel when they assemble before the LORD your God at the place he chooses.
Call them all together--men, women, children, and the foreigners living in your towns--so they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully obey all the terms of this law.

And I persecuted the followers of the Way, hounding some to death, binding and delivering both men and women to prison.

God's message was preached in ever-widening circles. The number of believers greatly increased in Jerusalem, and many of the Jewish priests were converted, too.

Then the whole population of Lydda and Sharon turned to the Lord when they saw Aeneas walking around.

But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so that the number of believers totaled about five thousand men, not counting women and children.

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians--you are one in Christ Jesus.

The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it grew in strength and numbers. The believers were walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

The people will declare, "The LORD is the source of all my righteousness and strength." And all who were angry with him will come to him and be ashamed.

It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!
Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where briers grew, myrtles will sprout up. This miracle will bring great honor to the LORD's name; it will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.

For I will give you abundant water to quench your thirst and to moisten your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit and my blessings on your children.
They will thrive like watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.
Some will proudly claim, `I belong to the LORD.' Others will say, `I am a descendant of Jacob.' Some will write the LORD's name on their hands and will take the honored name of Israel as their own.

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and throwing himself to the ground in front of the Temple of God, a large crowd of people from Israel--men, women, and children--gathered and wept bitterly with him.

But in relationships among the Lord's people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women.
For although the first woman came from man, all men have been born from women ever since, and everything comes from God.

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