Amplified Bible

Acts 14:22-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)

22. Establishing and strengthening the souls and the hearts of the disciples, urging and warning and encouraging them to stand firm in the faith, and [telling them] that it is through many hardships and tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

23. And when they had appointed and ordained elders for them in each church with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in Whom they had come to believe [being full of joyful trust that He is the Christ, the Messiah].

24. Then they went through Pisidia and arrived at Pamphylia.

25. And when they had spoken the Word in Perga [the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God], they went down to Attalia;

26. And from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had [first] been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had [now] completed.