Acts 15

Treated in 16 passages across the library.

  • 15:9 and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. 5
  • 15:1 And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, [saying], Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2
  • 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses. 1
  • 15:10 Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 1
  • 15:14 Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 1
  • 15:18 Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old. 1
  • 15:19 Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles turn to God; 1
  • 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 1
  • 15:35 But Paul and Barnabas tarried in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. 1
  • 15:36 And after some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, [and see] how they fare. 1
  • 15:39 And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted asunder one from the other, and Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away unto Cyprus: 1

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  1. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse 2 cites Acts 15:39

    …n runs thus, “And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder.” (Acts 15:39.) This naturally induces the reader to suppose, that they were equally sharp therein; tha…

  2. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Way to the Kingdom cites Acts 15:1

    …cept ye be circumcised, and keep the law,” (the whole ritual law,) “ye cannot be saved.” (Acts 15:1, 24.) 3. In opposition to these, the Apostle declares, both here and in many other places…

  3. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Baptism with the Holy Spirit cites Acts 15:1

    …cumcision they could not be saved i.e., they could not be saved by simple faith in Jesus (Acts 15:1). These young converts in Galatia became all upset. They did not know whether they were s…

  4. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse 5 cites Acts 15:5

    … vehemently withstood those who taught that Christians ought “to keep the law of Moses;” (Acts 15:5; ) not only St. Peter, who termed the insisting on this, on the observance of the ritual …

  5. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    General rules, without which no lust will be mortified cites Acts xv. 9

    … the doing of it that hath not that instrument. Now, it is faith that purifies the heart, Acts xv. 9; or, as Peter speaks, we “purify our souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit,” 1 Pe…

  6. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Second Stage cites Acts 15:9

    …faith of it, and consequently fit for the King of glory to inhabit. John 15:3; Eph. 5:26; Acts 15:9; Rom. 16:25,26. I saw moreover in my dream, that the Interpreter took him by the hand, an…

  7. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Christian Perfection cites Acts 15:9

    … 26. He, therefore, who liveth in true believers, hath “purified their hearts by faith;” [Acts 15:9] insomuch that every one that hath Christ in him the hope of glory, [Col. 1:27] “purifiet…

  8. Holy in Christ · Andrew Murray

    Holiness and Cleansing cites Acts xv. 9

    …oved! let us cleanse ourselves.’ The cleansing is sometimes spoken of as the work of God (Acts xv. 9; 1 John i. 9); sometimes as that of Christ (John xv. 3; Eph. v. 26; Tit. ii. 14). Here we…

  9. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.1 Faith cites Acts 15: 9

    …tue may wash the outside, but faith washes the inside. ‘Purifying their hearts by faith.’ Acts 15: 9. Faith makes the heart a temple with this inscription, ‘Holiness to the Lord.’ They whose…

  10. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Holy Spirit Guiding the Believer into a Life as a Son cites Acts 15:10

    …id to the Jews of his time, that neither they nor their fathers had been able to bear it (Acts 15:10). Many Christians have a long list of self-made rules, and if by any chance they break on…

  11. The Life of Trust · George Müller

    The Scriptural Knowledge Institution cites Acts xv. 14

    …ich I only refer to the following: Matt. xiii. 24-30, and verses 36-43, 2 Tim. iii. 1-13, Acts xv. 14. A hearty desire for the conversion of sinners, and earnest prayer for it to the Lord, is…

  12. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God cites Acts 15:18

    … is represented as saying that Jehovah is "perfect in knowledge." Along the same line, in Acts 15:18 we read: "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world." The Revised …

  13. The Gospel of Healing · A. B. Simpson

    The Scriptural Foundation cites Acts xv. 19

    … the one who had authority to say, in summing up the decrees of the Council at Jerusalem (Acts xv. 19), "My sentence is;" the man who is named first by Paul himself among the Pillars of the C…

  14. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Mystery of Iniquity cites Acts 15:28

    …eats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.” (Acts 15:28, 29.) Yet was not this evil so thoroughly suppressed, but that it frequently broke out ag…

  15. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Great Privilege of those that are Born of God cites Acts 15:35

    …s, and to be his fellow-labourer in every place; — nevertheless, was afterward so sharp, (Acts 15:35, 39, ) in his contention with St. Paul, (because he “thought it not good to take with the…

  16. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    On Charity cites Acts 15:36

    …e St. Paul, for fear his practice should appear to contradict his doctrine? For we read, (Acts 15:36, et seq.,) “And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our b…