Acts 10:35 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 10:35

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.

KJV

But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

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Commentary

1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

...to whom Peter, coming in, said, "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation, he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to Him." He thus clearly indicates, that He whom Cornelius had previously feared as God, of whom he had heard through the law and the prophets, for whose sake also he used to give alms, is, in truth, God. The knowledge of the Son was, however, wanting to him...

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And since to such "He giveth more grace," according to the law of His Kingdom (Jas 4:6; Mt 25:29), He sends Peter, not to be the instrument of his conversion, as this is very frequently called, but simply to "show him the way of God more perfectly," as before to the devout Ethiopian eunuch.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
παντὶ	panti	every	G3956 →
ἔθνει	ethnei	nation	G1484 →
ὁ	ho	which	G3588 →
φοβούμενος	phoboumenos	is fearing	G5399 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐργαζόμενος	ergazomenos	working	G2038 →
δικαιοσύνην	dikaiosunēn	righteousness	G1343 →
δεκτὸς	dektos	acceptable	G1184 →
αὐτῷ	autō	to Him	G846 →
ἐστιν.	estin	is.	G1510 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
leads to
- Ephesians 3:6
  This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Galatians 3:28–29
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13
  For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Romans 10:12
  For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Ephesians 1:23
  which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Through
1 John 2:29
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
leads to
- John 3:3–5
  Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
- 1 John 3:7
  Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
Through
Acts 10:2
He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.
leads to
- Matthew 7:7–8
  Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.