praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Parallel translations
- WEB praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
- KJV Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
- NKJV praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
- NASB praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.
- NLT all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.
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Quick answer
The believers praised God and were respected by the wider community, while the Lord himself kept adding new converts daily. Salvation and church growth are God's work.
Overview
The summary closes by crediting growth to the Lord, not human effort: it is God who adds 'those who were being saved.' This guards against pride and points to divine sovereignty in salvation, a theme dear to the Reformed tradition. The favor they enjoyed and the praise they offered flowed from genuine transformation, as the gospel of the crucified and risen Jesus bore visible fruit.
Cross-references & the web
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- Acts 16:5So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
- Acts 5:13–14Although the people regarded them highly, no one else dared to join them.
- Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
- 1 Cor 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- Rom 14:18For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
- Acts 11:24Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
- Acts 13:48When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
- Titus 3:4–5But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
- Rom 11:5–7In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
- Rom 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
- Rom 9:27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
- Luke 2:52And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
- Acts 4:21After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.
- Luke 19:48Yet they could not find a way to do so, because all the people hung on His words.
- Acts 4:33With great power the apostles continued to give their testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And abundant grace was upon them all.
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