Acts 16:5

Therefore, the churches were established in the faith, and they increased in number daily.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

In Context

4And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees that had been resolved on by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem, that they might keep them.

6When they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia,

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Cross References

Acts 2:47praising God, and being in favor with all the people. And the Lord added the saved daily to the Church.

Acts 5:14And believers in the Lord were more and more added to them, multitudes both of men and women;)

Acts 9:31Then the churches throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Acts 12:24But the word of the Lord increased and multiplied.

Acts 15:41And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:2-6

Paul's Adoption of Timothy. 1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: 2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. 4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered… Read the whole commentary →

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