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Acts 16

Acts 16:1

THEN CAME HE TO DERBE AND LYSTRA; AND, BEHOLD, A CERTAIN DISCIPLE WAS THERE, NAMED TIMOTHEUS, THE SON OF A CERTAIN WOMAN, WHICH WAS A JEWESS, AND BELIEVED; BUT HIS FATHER WAS A GREEK;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:3

HIM WOULD PAUL HAVE TO GO FORTH WITH HIM; AND TOOK AND CIRCUMCISED HIM BECAUSE OF THE JEWS WHICH WERE IN THOSE QUARTERS; FOR THEY KNEW ALL THAT HIS FATHER WAS A GREEK. Paul and Silas had entered Asia Minor in the extreme southeastern corner, through the pass known as the Syrian Gates, or Beilan Pass... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:4

AND AS THEY WENT, THROUGH THE CITIES, THEY DELIVERED THEM THE DECREES FOR TO KEEP, THAT WERE ORDAINED OF THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS WHICH WERE AT JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:6

NOW, WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGHOUT PHRYGIA AND THE REGION OF GALATIA, AND WERE FORBIDDEN OF THE HOLY GHOST TO PREACH THE WORD IN ASIA,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:8

AND THEY, PASSING BY MYSIA, CAME DOWN TO TROAS. The zeal of Paul knew neither weariness nor rest; he was ever active for his Lord. As he traveled through the cities where congregations had been founded through his own efforts or those of disciples that had become missionaries, he and his companions... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:9

AND A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT: THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA AND PRAYED HIM, SAYING, COME OVER INTO MACEDONIA AND HELP US.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:10

AND AFTER HE HAD SEEN THE VISION, IMMEDIATELY WE ENDEAVORED TO GO INTO MACEDONIA, ASSUREDLY GATHERING THAT THE LORD HAD CALLED US FOR TO PREACH THE GOSPEL UNTO THEM. The reason for all this maneuvering now became apparent. During the night, apparently the same night after they had arrived in Troas,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:12

AND FROM THENCE TO PHILIPPI, WHICH IS THE CHIEF CITY OF THAT PART OF MACEDONIA AND A COLONY, AND WE WERE IN THAT CITY ABIDING CERTAIN DAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:13

AND ON THE SABBATH WE WENT OUT OF THE CITY BY A RIVERSIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS WONT TO BE MADE; AND WE SAT DOWN AND SPAKE UNTO THE WOMEN WHICH RESORTED THITHER. In those days of active commercial intercourse between the various Aegean ports, it did not take long for them to find a ship upon which they... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:14

AND A CERTAIN WOMAN NAMED LYDIA, A SELLER OF PURPLE, OF THE CITY OF THYATIRA, WHICH WORSHIPED GOD, HEARD US; WHOSE HEART THE LORD OPENED THAT SHE ATTENDED UNTO THE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF PAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:15

AND WHEN SHE WAS BAPTIZED AND HER HOUSEHOLD, SHE BESOUGHT US, SAYING, IF YE HAVE JUDGED ME TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD, COME INTO MY HOUSE, AND ABIDE THERE. AND SHE CONSTRAINED US. In the audience on the river bank, on that memorable morning when the first Christian service was conducted on European... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:16

AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS WE WENT TO PRAYER, A CERTAIN DAMSEL POSSESSED WITH A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION MET US, WHICH BROUGHT HER MASTERS MUCH GAIN BY SOOTHSAYING;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:17

THE SAME FOLLOWED PAUL AND US AND CRIED, SAYING, THESE MEN ARE THE SERVANTS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, WHICH SHOW UNTO US THE WAY OF SALVATION.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:18

AND THIS DID SHE MANY DAYS. BUT PAUL, BEING GRIEVED, TURNED AND SAID TO THE SPIRIT, I COMMAND THEE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST TO COME OUT OF HER. AND HE CAME OUT THE SAME HOUR. Even in Philippi, although there was no synagogue there, Paul and his companions continued to observe the hours of prayer.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:19

AND WHEN HER MASTERS SAW THAT THE HOPE OF THEIR GAINS WAS GONE, THEY CAUGHT PAUL AND SILAS, AND DREW THEM INTO THE MARKETPLACE UNTO THE RULERS,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:22

AND THE MULTITUDE ROSE UP TOGETHER AGAINST THEM; AND THE MAGISTRATES RENT OFF THEIR CLOTHES, AND COMMANDED TO BEAT THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:23

AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM, THEY CAST THEM INTO PRISON, CHARGING THE JAILER TO KEEP THEM SAFELY;... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:24

WHO, HAVING RECEIVED SUCH A CHARGE, THRUST THEM INTO THE INNER PRISON, AND MADE THEIR FEET FAST IN THE STOCKS. When the evil spirit went out of the slave-girl, the hope of gain of her masters also went out, as Luke notes, in a fine play upon the word. The income from this source was not only endange... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:26

AND SUDDENLY THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SO THAT THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRISON WERE SHAKEN; AND IMMEDIATELY ALL THE DOORS WERE OPENED, AND EVERY ONE'S BANDS WERE LOOSED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:27

AND THE KEEPER OF THE PRISON AWAKING OUT OF HIS SLEEP, AND SEEING THE PRISON-DOORS OPEN, HE DREW OUT HIS SWORD, AND WOULD HAVE KILLED HIMSELF, SUPPOSING THAT THE PRISONERS HAD BEEN FLED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:28

BUT PAUL CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, DO THYSELF NO HARM; FOR WE ARE ALL HERE. Peter had calmly slept in prison on the night before his execution was to take place, chap. 12:6. And here these two disciples, with their backs aching and bleeding from the merciless whipping, with their legs cramped... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:33

AND HE TOOK THEM THE SAME HOUR OF THE NIGHT, AND WASHED THEIR STRIPES; AND WAS BAPTIZED, HE AND ALL HIS, STRAIGHTWAY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:34

AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SET MEAT BEFORE THEM, AND REJOICED, BELIEVING IN GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE. In the excess of his first terror, the keeper of the prison had not even thought of a torch, being concerned only about the prevention of any escape on the part of the prisoners.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:36

AND THE KEEPER OF THE PRISON TOLD THIS SAYING TO PAUL, THE MAGISTRATES HAVE SENT TO LET YOU GO; NOW THEREFORE DEPART AND GO IN PEACE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:37

BUT PAUL SAID UNTO THEM, THEY HAVE BEATEN US OPENLY UNCONDEMNED, BEING ROMANS, AND HAVE CAST US INTO PRISON; AND NOW DO THEY THRUST US OUT PRIVILY? NAY, VERILY; BUT LET THEM COME THEMSELVES AND FETCH US OUT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 16:40

AND THEY WENT OUT OF THE PRISON, AND ENTERED INTO THE HOUSE OF LYDIA; AND WHEN THEY HAD SEEN THE BRETHREN, THEY COMFORTED THEM AND DEPARTED. In the morning a peculiar surprise came to the imprisoned missionaries. For hardly had the day dawned when the _ duoviri_, or praetors, of the city sent the li... [ Continue Reading ]

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