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Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
Acts 11:14 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
  • BSB He will convey to you a message by which you and all your household will be saved.’
  • NKJV who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved.’
  • NASB and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’
  • NLT He will tell you how you and everyone in your household can be saved!’

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Quick answer

The angel said Peter would speak words by which Cornelius and his whole household would be saved. Salvation comes through hearing and believing the gospel message.

Overview

Devout as Cornelius was, he still needed Peter's words to be saved, showing that reverence alone does not save apart from the gospel of Christ. Salvation comes by the proclaimed word received in faith (Romans 10:14-17). The promise extends to his whole household, displaying the gospel's power to reach families and peoples.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Acts 16:15And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
  • Acts 10:22And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
  • Acts 16:31–34And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
  • Acts 2:39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
  • Acts 10:2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
  • Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
  • Acts 10:32–33Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
  • John 12:50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
  • Acts 10:6He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
  • John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
  • 1 Jn 5:9–13If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
  • Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
  • Luke 19:10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
  • Ps 19:7–11The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
  • Gen 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
  • Jer 32:39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
  • John 4:53So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
  • Prov 20:7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
  • Ps 115:13–14He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
  • Ps 112:2His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
  • Ps 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
  • Isa 61:8–9For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Acts 18:8And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
  • John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
  • Rom 10:9–10That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
  • Rom 1:16–17For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • 1 Cor 1:16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
  • Acts 10:43To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 11:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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