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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Timothy Joins Paul and Silas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Vision of the Man of Macedonia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.16.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, &#8220;Come over to Macedonia and help us.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Lydia&#8217;s Conversion in Philippi</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.16.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day we went on to Neapolis. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">16:12 </span><span class="ft">The text and meaning of the Greek for </span><span class="fqa">the leading city of that district </span><span class="ft">are uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.16.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul&#8217;s message. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. &#8220;If you consider me a believer in the Lord,&#8221; she said, &#8220;come and stay at my house.&#8221; And she persuaded us.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul and Silas in Prison</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.16.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, &#8220;These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, &#8220;In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!&#8221; At that moment the spirit left her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.16.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They brought them before the magistrates and said, &#8220;These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.16.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.16.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone&#8217;s chains came loose. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But Paul shouted, &#8220;Don&#8217;t harm yourself! We are all here!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.16.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He then brought them out and asked, &#8220;Sirs, what must I do to be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.16.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved&#8212;you and your household.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.16.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God&#8212;he and his whole household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.16.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.16.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: &#8220;Release those men.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.16.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The jailer told Paul, &#8220;The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.16.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.16.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But Paul said to the officers: &#8220;They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.16.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.16.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.16.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.16.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia&#8217;s house, where they met with the brothers and sisters and encouraged them. Then they left.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Thessalonica</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. &#8220;This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason&#8217;s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the assembly of the people</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: &#8220;These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar&#8217;s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Berea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As a result, many of them believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But when the Jews in Thessalonica learned that Paul was preaching the word of God at Berea, some of them went there too, agitating the crowds and stirring them up. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The believers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed at Berea. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then left with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Athens</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, &#8220;What is this babbler trying to say?&#8221; Others remarked, &#8220;He seems to be advocating foreign gods.&#8221; They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, &#8220;May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: &#8220;People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">to an unknown god</span></span><span class="content">. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship&#8212;and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8216;For in him we live and move and have our being.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:28 </span><span class="ft">From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides</span></span></span><span class="content"> As some of your own poets have said, &#8216;We are his offspring.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:28 </span><span class="ft">From the Cilician Stoic philosopher Aratus</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore since we are God&#8217;s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone&#8212;an image made by human design and skill. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, &#8220;We want to hear you again on this subject.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">At that, Paul left the Council. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="ACT.18">
         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">In Corinth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.18.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, &#8220;Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.18.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.18.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.18.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews of Corinth made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the place of judgment. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;This man,&#8221; they charged, &#8220;is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.18.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to them, &#8220;If you Jews were making a complaint about some misdemeanor or serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to listen to you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law&#8212;settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So he drove them off. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the crowd there turned on Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the proconsul; and Gallio showed no concern whatever.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Priscilla, Aquila and Apollos</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.18.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When they asked him to spend more time with them, he declined. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But as he left, he promised, &#8220;I will come back if it is God&#8217;s will.&#8221; Then he set sail from Ephesus. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When he landed at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church and then went down to Antioch.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.18.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.18.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">18:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with fervor in the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.18.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For he vigorously refuted his Jewish opponents in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.12.1"><span class="content">but whoever hates correction is stupid.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.12.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.12.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Good people obtain favor from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.12.2"><span class="content">but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.12.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.12.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">No one can be established through wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.12.3"><span class="content">but the righteous cannot be uprooted.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.12.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.12.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A wife of noble character is her husband&#8217;s crown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.12.4"><span class="content">but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.12.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.12.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The plans of the righteous are just,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.12.5"><span class="content">but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.12.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.12.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.12.6"><span class="content">but the speech of the upright rescues them.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.12.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.12.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The wicked are overthrown and are no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.12.7"><span class="content">but the house of the righteous stands firm.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.12.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.12.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A person is praised according to their prudence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"><span class="content">and one with a warped mind is despised.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.12.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"><span class="content">than pretend to be somebody and have no food.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.12.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The righteous care for the needs of their animals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"><span class="content">but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Those who work their land will have abundant food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"><span class="content">but those who chase fantasies have no sense.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.12.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"><span class="content">but the root of the righteous endures.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.12.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"><span class="content">and so the innocent escape trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.12.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"><span class="content">and the work of their hands brings them reward.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.12.14"></span></div>
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