Acts 15:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.”
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BSBPD
“When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Acts 15:31 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 15:1Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
- Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
- Acts 16:5So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
- Galatians 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
- Galatians 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- Philippians 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
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