Acts 16:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

Acts 16:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice evermore. …
Psalms 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
James 1:2
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
1 Peter 1:6-8
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 25-34)

We have here the designs of the persecutors of Paul and Silas baffled and broken. I. The persecutors designed to dishearten and discourage the preachers of the gospel, and to make them sick of the cause and weary of their work; but here we find them both hearty and heartened. 1. They were themselves hearty, wonderfully hearty; never were poor prisoners so truly cheerful, nor so far from laying the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises--literally, “praying, were singing praises”; that is, while engaged in pouring out their hearts in prayer, had broken forth into singing, and were hymning loud their joy. As the word here employed is that used to denote the Paschal hymn sung by our Lord and His disciples after their last Passover (Mt 26:30), and which we know to have consi…