Acts 27:25 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 27:25

So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even so as it hath been spoken unto me.

KJV

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer,.... Which he repeats with more fervency and earnestness, there being so much reason for it: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me: true faith lays hold and, settles upon the word and promises of God; and the true believer, knowing his power and faithfulness, firmly persuaded that there shall be a performance of what is said by him, with respect to matter, manner, and circumstances.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Because God made us and not we ourselves, therefore we are not our own but his. His we are by creation, for he made us; by preservation, for he maintains us; by redemption, for he bought us. We are more his than our own. [2.] As his sovereign ruler and master, who, having given him being, has right to give him law: Whom I serve.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Then be of good cheer, be of good courage. God is ever faithful, and therefore let all that have an interest in his promise be ever cheerful. If with God saying and doing are not two things, then with us believing and enjoying should not.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He tells them what ground he had for this assurance, that it is not a banter upon them, to put them into humour, nor a human conjecture, he has a divine revelation for it, and is as confident of it as that God is true, being fully satisfied that he has his word for it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1335: “A Cheery Word in Troublous Times” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1877)

THE presence of a brave man in the hour of danger is a very great comfort to his companions. It is a grand thing to observe Paul so bold, so calm in the midst of all the hurly-burly of the storm. He was talking so cheerfully and so encouragingly to the crew and to the soldiers and to the prisoners. You must have seen, in many events in history, that it is the one man, after all, that wins the battle. All the rest play their parts well when the one heroic spirit lifts the standard.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
διὸ	dio	Therefore	G1352 →
εὐθυμεῖτε	euthumeite	take courage	G2114 →
ἄνδρες·	andres	men;	G435 →
πιστεύω	pisteuō	I believe	G4100 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	in God	G2316 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὕτως	houtōs	thus	G3779 →
ἔσται	estai	it will be	G1510 →
καθ᾽	kath᾽	according to	G2596 →
ὃν	hon	the	G3739 →
τρόπον	tropon	way	G5158 →
λελάληταί	lelalētai	it has been said	G2980 →
μοι.	moi	to me.	G3165 →

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
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:29
  Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Malachi 3:6
  “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- Hebrews 6:18
  Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- Titus 1:2
  in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
Through
Luke 1:45
Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord’s word to her will be fulfilled.”
leads to
- John 20:29
  Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
- John 11:40
  Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
- Luke 11:27–28
  As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”