Acts 14:21-28

21 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had ¹made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

22 ²strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them ³to continue in ⁴the faith, and saying that ⁵through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

23 And when they had ⁶appointed ⁷elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting ⁸they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Paul and Barnabas Return to Antioch in Syria

24 Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.

25 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia,

26 and from there they sailed to Antioch, ⁹where they had been ¹⁰commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.

27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, ¹¹they declared all that God had done with them, and ¹²how he had ¹³opened ¹⁴a door of faith to the Gentiles.

28 And they remained no little time with the disciples.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 28:19
• 2. Acts 15:32, 41; [Acts 18:23; 1 Thessalonians 3:2, 13]
• 3. Acts 13:43; Colossians 1:23
• 4. See Acts 6:7
• 5. John 15:20; John 16:33; 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Timothy 3:12; [Acts 9:16; Mark 10:30; Luke 22:28, 29; Romans 8:17; Philippians 1:20; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:12; 1 Peter 5:10; Revelation 1:9]
• 6. [Titus 1:5]
• 7. See Acts 11:30
• 8. Acts 20:32
• 9. Acts 13:3
• 10. Acts 15:40
• 11. Acts 15:4; [Acts 15:3, 12; Acts 21:19]
• 12. [Acts 11:18]
• 13. 1 Corinthians 16:9; 2 Corinthians 2:12; Colossians 4:3; Revelation 3:8
• 14. [Hosea 2:15]