Acts 2:47

47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Acts 2:47 in Other Translations

47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

47 all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.

47 as they praised God. People in general liked what they saw. Every day their number grew as God added those who were saved.

47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

47 At the same time, they praised God and had the good will of all the people. Every day the Lord saved people, and they were added to the group.

47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.

47 They praised God. They were respected by all the people. Every day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved.

Acts 2:47 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 2:47

Praising God
Not only for their temporal mercies and enjoyments of life, which they partook of in so delightful and comfortable a manner; but for their spiritual mercies, that the Lord had been pleased to call them by his grace, and reveal Christ to them, and pardon them who had been such vile sinners, give them a name, and a place in his house, and favour them with the ordinances of it, and such agreeable and delightful company as the saints were, they had fellowship with:

having favour with all the people;
they not only behaved with such true and sincere love towards one another in their church state, but with so much wisdom, courteousness, and affability towards them that were without, and walked so becoming the profession they made, that they gained the good will of the generality of the people:

and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved:
partly by the conversation of these young converts, and chiefly by the ministry of the word, many souls were won and gained to Christ, were wrought upon, and converted, whose hearts the Lord inclined to give up themselves to the church, and walk with them in all the ordinances and commandments of the Lord; and these were such whom God had chosen to salvation by Jesus Christ, and whom he had redeemed by his precious blood, and who were now regenerated and sanctified by the Spirit of God, and so should certainly be saved; which is not always the case of persons added to churches, many of whom have not the root of the matter in them, and so fall away; but is of those who are added by the Lord, for there is a difference between being added by the Lord, and being added by men.

Acts 2:47 In-Context

45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Cross References

• 1. S Romans 14:18
• 2. S ver 41; Acts 5:14