Acts 16:14

The Lord opened Lydia's heart so she believed Paul's message; she is the first named European convert.

Cross-references · 21

• Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
• Eph 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• Isa 50:5The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
• John 6:44–45No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
• Rev 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
• 2 Cor 3:14–16But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
• Rom 9:16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
• 2 Cor 4:4–6in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• 1 Cor 3:6–7I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Acts 11:21The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Acts 18:7He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
• Jas 1:16–17Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• Rev 2:18–24“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
• Acts 8:27He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
• 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.
• John 12:20Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
• Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
• Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
• Song 5:4My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

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