Acts 16:5

So the Churches went on gaining a stronger faith and growing in numbers from day to day.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4As they journeyed on from town to town, they handed to the brethren for their observance the decisions which had been arrived at by the Apostles and Elders in Jerusalem.

6Then Paul and his companions passed through Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Message in the province of Asia.

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Cross References

Acts 2:47praising God and being regarded with favour by all the people. Also, day by day, the Lord added to their number those whom He was saving.

Acts 5:14and more and more believers in the Lord joined them, including great numbers both of men and women--

Acts 9:31The Church, however, throughout the whole of Judaea, Galilee and Samaria, had peace and was spiritually built up; and grew in numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and receiving encouragement from the Holy Spirit.

Acts 12:24But God's Message prospered, and converts were 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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