Acts 26:18

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Acts 26:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 ‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

19 So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

20 First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

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Acts 9:17

So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 9:18

At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,

Psalms 119:18

Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

Psalms 146:8

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Isaiah 32:3

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

Luke 24:45

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

John 9:39

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:18

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Acts 26:23

that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Acts 13:47

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Isaiah 9:2

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

Isaiah 49:6

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

Isaiah 60:2

For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Matthew 4:16

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

Matthew 6:22

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

John 1:4

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

John 1:5

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:6

There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.

John 1:8

He himself was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

John 1:9

The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.

John 3:19

And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

John 8:12

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

John 12:35

Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

John 12:36

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:25

For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1 John 2:8

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

1 John 2:9

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

Isaiah 49:24

Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

Isaiah 49:25

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

Isaiah 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Isaiah 53:9

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Isaiah 53:11

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Luke 11:21

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.

Luke 11:22

But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.

Colossians 1:13

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

Hebrews 2:14

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

Hebrews 2:15

and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

1 John 3:8

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:3

And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.

Acts 2:38

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:19

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

Acts 5:31

God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Acts 10:43

All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

Acts 13:38

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

Acts 13:39

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

Psalms 32:1

Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Psalms 32:2

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Luke 1:77

to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

Luke 24:47

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Romans 4:6

And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Romans 4:7

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Romans 4:8

Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

Romans 4:9

Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 1:7

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

Colossians 1:14

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 2:12

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.

Acts 20:32

And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Romans 8:17

And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

Ephesians 1:14

who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

Colossians 1:12

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Hebrews 9:15

Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

1 Peter 1:4

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

John 17:17

Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:6

This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

Hebrews 10:10

And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:14

because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

Jude 1:1

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

John 4:14

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 7:38

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

John 7:39

He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:2

through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Galatians 3:2

I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Galatians 3:14

He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:8

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.