Acts 15:32

The Letter Is Delivered To Antioch

³¹ and when they had read it they rejoiced at the comfort it brought. ³² And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many a good counsel. ³³ After spending some time there the brothers let them go with a greeting of peace to those who had sent them.

In the Faith

Judas

Lot

Silas

Acts 11:23

When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;

Acts 13:1

Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 14:22

Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."

Matthew 23:34

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

Luke 11:49

"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;

Acts 2:17-18

"In the last days, God says, it shall come to pass that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams;

Acts 2:40

With many other words he continued to bear testimony, and kept entreating them, saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation."

Acts 11:27

At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Acts 15:1

But some men came down from Judea and attempted to teach the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised according to Moses' custom, you cannot be saved."

Acts 15:22

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, to select some of their number, and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. The men chosen were Judas called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

Acts 15:41

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Acts 18:23

After spending some time there, he set out and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, and strengthened all the disciples.

Acts 20:2

And when he had passed through those districts and encouraged the disciples in many addresses, he came into Greece where he spent three months.

Romans 12:6

But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.

Romans 12:8

Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

1 Corinthians 1:8

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:28-29

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

1 Corinthians 14:3

But he who prophesies addresses words to men that build up, encourage, and console.

1 Corinthians 14:29

Let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others exercise their judgment.

1 Corinthians 14:32

The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets,

Ephesians 3:5

which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

Ephesians 4:11-13

It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

1 Thessalonians 2:11

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

1 Thessalonians 3:2

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Do not despise prophesyings.

2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now all such I command and entreat, by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to work in quietness. and to earn their own living.

1 Timothy 2:1

First of all then, I am urging that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered regularly for all men;

Titus 2:6-15

The younger men exhort to be sober-minded; in every respect showing yourself an example of good works.

1 Peter 5:1

Now to you who are presbyters I make this appeal; for I am myself a presbyter, and was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed.

1 Peter 5:10

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1 Peter 5:12

By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.