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 10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
• Acts 1:14All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
• 1 Jn 1:3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
• Acts 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness 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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
• Acts 20:7On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
• Jude 1:20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Eph 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Col 4:2Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
• Eph 2:20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Acts 6:4But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
• 2 Tim 3:14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
• Acts 4:31When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• 1 Cor 10:16–17The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
• 1 Cor 10:21You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
• John 8:31–32Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Acts 20:11When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
• 1 Cor 11:2Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
• Gal 1:6I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• 2 Pet 3:17–18You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
• Acts 4:23Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
• 2 Pet 3:1–2This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
• 1 Cor 11:20–26When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
• Acts 5:12–14By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
• Mark 4:16–17These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
• Luke 24:35They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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