Acts 16:25

At midnight, beaten and chained, Paul and Silas prayed and sang hymns as the prisoners listened.

Cross-references · 35

• 1 Th 5:16–18Rejoice evermore.
• Ps 119:62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
• Jas 1:2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• 1 Pet 1:6–8Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
• Rom 5:3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• Phil 4:4–7Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
• Ps 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
• Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Col 3:15–17And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
• Matt 5:10–11Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Ps 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
• 2 Cor 4:8–9We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
• Eph 5:19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
• Job 35:10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
• Col 1:24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• Isa 30:29Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
• Ps 34:1I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
• Ps 71:7I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
• Luke 6:22–23Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• Ps 42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
• Matt 26:38–39Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Ps 119:55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
• Ps 91:15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
• 1 Pet 4:14If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• 2 Cor 4:16–17For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Phil 2:17Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
• Ezra 3:12–13But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
• Acts 5:41And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
• 2 Cor 6:10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
• Zech 3:8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
• Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Jas 5:13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
• Ps 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
• Ps 22:2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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