Acts 16:31 (YLT)

Passage

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

Nearby Context

Acts 16:29 And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

Acts 16:30 and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?'

Acts 16:31 and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

Acts 16:32 and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

Acts 16:33 and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe <FI>them<Fi> from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "saved", "said", "believe", "lord", "jesus", "christ", "thou", and "shalt". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "saved" and "said", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "and having brought them forth said Sirs..." into verse 32's "and they spake to him the word...", so "saved" and "said" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "saved" and "said" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.