Acts 2:42

The new believers devote themselves to the apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer. It describes the core practices of the early church.

Cross-references · 32

• Heb 10:25Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
• Acts 1:14With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
• 1 Jn 1:3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
• Acts 2:46With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
• Acts 20:7On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
• Jude 1:20But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
• Col 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
• Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
• Col 4:2Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
• Eph 2:20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
• Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
• Acts 6:4and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
• 2 Tim 3:14But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them.
• Acts 4:31After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• Rom 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
• 1 Cor 10:16–17Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
• 1 Cor 10:21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
• John 8:31–32So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
• Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
• Acts 20:11Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. And after speaking until daybreak, he departed.
• 1 Cor 11:2Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
• Gal 1:6I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
• 2 Pet 3:17–18Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.
• Acts 4:23On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
• 2 Pet 3:1–2Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking
• 1 Cor 11:20–26Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.
• Acts 5:12–14The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.
• Mark 4:16–17Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
• Luke 24:35Then the two told what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

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