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More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
Acts 5:14 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
  • BSB Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
  • NKJV And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
  • NASB And increasingly believers in the Lord, large numbers of men and women, were being added to their number,
  • NLT Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women.

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Quick answer

Despite the awe, multitudes of men and women believe and are added to the Lord. The church grows precisely as it remains holy.

Overview

Far from hindering growth, the church's reverent integrity accompanies its expansion. The phrase 'added to the Lord' shows that converts are joined first to Christ Himself, not merely to a movement. The explicit mention of both men and women reflects the gospel's reach across all people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Acts 2:47praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
  • Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Isa 55:11–13so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
  • Acts 9:42And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
  • Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • Acts 6:7The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
  • 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.
  • Acts 9:35All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
  • Ezra 10:1Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
  • 2 Sam 6:19He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.
  • Deut 31:11–12when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
  • Exod 35:22They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
  • Acts 8:3But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
  • Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Deut 29:11–12your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
  • Isa 45:24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.
  • Acts 22:4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
  • Neh 8:2Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
  • Isa 44:3–5For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
  • Acts 9:2and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 8:12But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
  • 1 Cor 11:11–12Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 5:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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