KJV King James Version
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Acts 19:18
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
WEB World English Bible
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
ASV American Standard Version
Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
many also of those who did believe were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,
Surrounding context — Acts 19
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.
20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
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πολλοίG4183 · polusmuchτεG5037 · teand/bothτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπεπιστευκότωνG4100 · pisteuōto trust (in)ἤρχοντοG2064 · erchomaito come/goἐξομολογούμενοιG1843 · exomologeomaito agreeκαὶG2532 · kaiandἀναγγέλλοντεςG312 · anangellōto reportτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoπράξειςG4234 · praxisactionαὐτῶν.G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Romans 10:10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.Psalm 32:5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.Matthew 3:6And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.Leviticus 16:21And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:Leviticus 26:40If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;Ezekiel 36:31Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.Job 33:27-28He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;Ezekiel 16:63That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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