Acts 20:32

Paul commits the elders to God and to the word of His grace, which can build them up and grant the inheritance among the sanctified. He entrusts them to God's keeping power.

Cross-references · 32

• Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Eph 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• Col 3:24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
• Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Heb 9:15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
• Col 2:7rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
• Jer 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
• 1 Pet 1:4–5to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
• Jude 1:24–25Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• Eph 5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• Acts 20:24But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
• Jude 1:20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
• Eph 2:20–22being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• Acts 14:23When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
• Heb 2:11For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
• Heb 10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
• 1 Cor 3:9–10For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• Acts 14:26From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
• 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• Eph 4:16from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• Acts 14:3Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
• John 15:3You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
• Eph 4:12for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
• Jer 49:11Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
• Acts 15:40but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Gen 50:24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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