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Acts 19:18

many that believed came to confess, and give an account of their past actions.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Miracles;   Paul;   Repentance;   Superstition;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Believers;   Faith-Unbelief;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Asia;   Confession;   Ephesians, letter to the;   Ephesus;   Mission;   Paul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Confess, Confession;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Relics;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Magic;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Confession;   Magi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Church;   Confession;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bible;   Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Ephesus;   Forgiveness;   Jude, Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Confession;   Kingdom Kingdom of God;   Sacraments;   Simon Magus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephesians, Epistle to the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ephesians;   Ephesus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Charm;   Confession;   Deed;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
A whole herd of folks who believed came forward and confessed their sins. They had finally realized this wasn't a game.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also, many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
Bible in Basic English
And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts.
Darby Translation
And many of those that believed came confessing and declaring their deeds.
New King James Version
And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.
Christian Standard Bible®
And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,
World English Bible
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And many of those who believed came, confessing and openly declaring their deeds.
Weymouth's New Testament
Many also of those who believed came confessing without reserve what their conduct had been,
King James Version (1611)
And many that beleeued came, and confessed, and shewed their deedes.
Literal Translation
And many of those who had believed came confessing, and reporting their practices.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Many of the also that beleued, came and cofessed, and shewed their workes.
Amplified Bible
Many of those who had become believers were coming, confessing and disclosing their [former sinful] practices.
American Standard Version
Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
Revised Standard Version
Many also of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And many yt beleved came and confessed and shewed their workes.
Update Bible Version
Many also of those that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
Webster's Bible Translation
And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.
Young's Literal Translation
many also of those who did believe were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,
New Century Version
Many of the believers began to confess openly and tell all the evil things they had done.
New English Translation
Many of those who had believed came forward, confessing and making their deeds known.
Berean Standard Bible
Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
Contemporary English Version
Many who were followers now started telling everyone about the evil things they had been doing.
Complete Jewish Bible
Many of those who had earlier made professions of faith now came and admitted publicly their evil deeds;
English Standard Version
Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And many that beleeued, came and confessed, and shewed their workes.
George Lamsa Translation
And many of them that believed came, and told their faults, and confessed what they had done.
Hebrew Names Version
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
International Standard Version
Many who became believers kept coming and confessing and telling about their practices.Matthew 3:6;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And many of those who believed came and acknowledged their sins, and confessed whatever they had done.
Murdock Translation
And many of them that believed, came and narrated their faults, and confessed what they had done.
New Living Translation
Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.
New Life Bible
Many Christians came and told of the wrong things they were doing.
English Revised Version
Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
New Revised Standard
Also many of those who became believers confessed and disclosed their practices.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Many also of them who had believed, were coming, making open confession, and renouncing their practices.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And many of them that believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds
King James Version
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Lexham English Bible
And many of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And many that beleued, came & confessed, and shewed their workes.
Easy-to-Read Version
Many of the believers began to confess, telling about all the evil things they had done.
New American Standard Bible
Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
Good News Translation
Many of the believers came, publicly admitting and revealing what they had done.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And many men bileueden, and camen, knowlechinge and tellynge her dedis.

Contextual Overview

13 Upon this, certain vagabond Jews, who were exorcists, pretended to cure demoniacs by pronouncing the name of the Lord Jesus: their form being this, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." 14 these practitioners were seven in number, the sons of Sceva a Jew, one of the chief priests. 15 but the evil spirit said to them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?" 16 the man who was possess'd immediately leapt upon them, got the better, and used them so roughly, they were forc'd to fly out of the house, cover'd with nothing but their wounds. 17 this was known to all the Jews and Greeks, that liv'd at Ephesus, who were all seiz'd with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted. 18 many that believed came to confess, and give an account of their past actions. 19 many that had practis'd magical arts, brought the books and publickly threw them into the fire: the value by computation amounting to fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 thus the christian doctrine flourish'd and prevail'd.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

confessed: Leviticus 16:21, Leviticus 26:40, Job 33:27, Job 33:28, Psalms 32:5, Proverbs 28:13, Jeremiah 3:13, Ezekiel 16:63, Ezekiel 36:31, Matthew 3:6, Romans 10:10, 1 John 1:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - they said Hosea 14:8 - What Mark 1:5 - confessing Acts 8:9 - used Acts 9:42 - and many Acts 13:6 - certain Acts 16:5 - increased Acts 19:26 - that not James 5:16 - Confess

Cross-References

Acts 9:13
then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many that this man has done a world of mischief to thy saints at Jerusalem: he is now here,
Acts 10:14
but Peter said, not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And many that believed,.... In Jesus Christ, whose name was spoken of with great respect, and which spread fear in every person:

came; to the apostle:

and confessed; their sins; and acknowledged what a wicked life they had led:

and showed their deeds; their former evil deeds, which they had been guilty of; one copy reads, "their sins"; see Matthew 3:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their deeds - Their actions; their evil course of life. The direct reference here is to the magical arts which had been used, but the word may also be designed to denote “iniquity” in general. They who make a profession of religion will be willing to confess their transgressions, and no man can have evidence that he is truly renewed who is not willing to confess as well as to forsake his sins, Romans 10:10; Proverbs 28:13, “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall find mercy.”


 
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