Acts 10:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. ”

• Acts 10:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But in every nation ... - This is given as a reason for what Peter had just said, that God was no respecter of persons. The sense is, that he now perceived that the favors of God were not confine...

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• Acts 10:35 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But in every nation he that (o) feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (o) By the "fear of God" the Hebrews understood the whole service of God, by which we perceive that Corn...

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• Acts 10:35 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Peter's Speech. Acts 10:34 f. declares that Peter regards the persons before him, though not Jews, as fit to enter the Church and share in the promises. The word for respecter of persons is a ne...

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• Acts 10:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  accepted with . acceptable to. Greek. dektos. Here Luke 4:19 ; Luke 4:24 ; 2 Corinthians 6:2 . Philippians 1:4 ; Philippians 1:18 .

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• Acts 10:35 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  35. He which feareth God, and doth righteousness. In these two members is comprehended the integrity of all the whole life. For the fear of God is nothing else but godliness and religion; an...

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• Acts 10:35 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1766 SALVATION OFFERED EQUALLY TO ALL Acts 10:34-35 . Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that fea...

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• Acts 10:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. But in every nation he that feared him, etc. - In every nation he who, according to his light and privileges,...

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• Acts 10:35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Of a truth I perceive, &c.— See on Deuteronomy 10:17 . The phrase no respecter of persons, has principally, if not always, a judicial meaning. It is used in this sense, Leviticus 19:15 . D...

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• Acts 10:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. But in every nation - not, 'in every religion,' according to a common distortion of these words. H...

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• Acts 10:35 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Peter and the Gentiles 1-48. Conversion of Cornelius. The baptism of Cornelius was an event of farreaching importance, and is, therefore, described by St. Luke in great detail. If it was not the f...

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• Acts 10:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  In every nation he that feareth him. — The great truth which Peter thus proclaimed is obviously far-reaching in its range. It applies, not to those only who know the name of Christ and believe on H...

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• Acts 10:35 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit Acts 10:34-48 The address with which Peter answered the centurion's inquiry was largely a recapitulation of the great facts of gospel history. The ministry of J...

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• Acts 10:35 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The story of Cornelius is remarkable. In himself, as Luke tells us, he was "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." This...

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• Acts 10:35 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: (35) But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (36) T...

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• Acts 10:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But in every nation ,.... In any Gentile nation in the Roman empire, and in any part, even in Scythia, or in the most uncultivated parts of the universe, as well as in Judea: he that feareth him ;...

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• Acts 10:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Ver. 35. He that feareth him and worketh righteousness ] This is the whole duty of man, as Ecclesiastes 1...

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• Acts 10:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then Peter opened his mouth Addressed himself to them, with a seriousness and solemnity answerable to so great an occasion; and said, Of a truth I perceive More clearly than ever, from such a con...

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• Acts 10:35 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Gentiles also must now hear the gospel. The heart of Cornelius, a Roman centurion, had been already prepared by God, having a wholesome, genuine fear of God that proved itself in kind works toward th...

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• Acts 10:35 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Peter Preaches in the House of Cornelius.       34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecte...

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• Acts 10:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  In every nation; even though Romans or Italians, of which nation Cornelius was, and might probably be worse thought of by the Jews, because they supposed themselves to have been hardly used by them...

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• Acts 10:35 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him.” His words are spoken in awe. He is almost speaking t...

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• Acts 10:35 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 10:34 . The word for respecter of persons , προσωπολήπτης, is found only here in the N.T., though προσωποληψία occurs in Romans 2:11 . Acts 10:35 . Accepted with Him .—...

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• Acts 10:35 - Scofield Reference Notes

  righteousness ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 10:10 ).

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• Acts 10:35 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 10:1 . Cornelius, a centurion. The person to whom St. Peter is sent to preach the gospel is described by name, Cornelius. By his occupation, a soldier. By his religion, a proselyte or convert...

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• Acts 10:35 - The Biblical Illustrator

  There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion. Peter’s vision The record of the advance of the young Church gives in quick succession three typical conversions: first, that...

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• Acts 10:35 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 10:1 Now there was (two last words in italics) for there was (in roman), A.V. and T.R.; Cornelius by name for called Cornelius, A.V. A glance at the map will show th...

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• Acts 10:35 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The first part of Peter's sermon:

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• Acts 10:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:13 ; 1 John 2:29 ; 2 Corinthians 7:1 ; Acts 15:9 ; Acts 10:2 ; Acts 9:31 ; Colossians 1:23-27 ; Colossians 1:6 ; Colossians 3:11 ; Ecclesiastes 12:13 ; Ephesians 1:6 ; Ep...

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• Acts 10:35 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Story of Cornelius Acts 10:1-41 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Before the Lord Jesus went up into Heaven, He gave command to the Apostles to disciple all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. In view of th...

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• Acts 10:35 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  But in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness — He that, first, reverences God, as great, wise, good, the cause, end, and governor of all things; and secondly, from this awful r...

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