He will tell you how you and everyone in your household can be saved!’
Parallel translations
- WEB who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
- KJV Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
- 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.’
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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 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
- Acts 10:22They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
- Acts 16:31–34They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
- Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
- Acts 10:2a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
- Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Acts 10:32–33Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He lodges in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’
- John 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
- Acts 10:6He lodges with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.
- John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
- 1 Jn 5:9–13If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
- Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
- Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- Ps 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
- Gen 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
- Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- John 4:53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
- Prov 20:7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
- Ps 115:13–14He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.
- Ps 112:2His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Isa 61:8–9“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
- John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- Acts 18:8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
- John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- Rom 10:9–10that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Rom 1:16–17For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
- 1 Cor 1:16(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)
- Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
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