ACTS 14:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. 'We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,' they said — the exhortation (parakaleo, to encourage) focuses on perseverance (diameno, to remain). The saying through many hardships we must enter the kingdom (dia thlipseon pleion) establishes suffering as integral to Christian discipleship, not incidental. The divine necessity (dei, it is necessary) suggests God's design rather than human misfortune.
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