These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Acts 16
Brit Hadashah 40 verses
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He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. At Lystra he found a , Timothy by —the son of a Messiahian Jewess, though he had a Greek father.
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Acts 14:6 1 Timothy 1:2 Acts 17:14 1 Thessalonians 3:2 2 Timothy 1:5 2 Timothy 1:2 Acts 18:5 1 Corinthians 4:17 Acts 19:22 Romans 16:21 Colossians 1:1 Philippians 2:19 2 Thessalonians 1:1 Philippians 1:1 Hebrews 13:23 1 Timothy 1:18 1 Thessalonians 1:1 2 Corinthians 1:19 2 Timothy 3:11 Acts 14:21 1 Corinthians 7:14 Acts 20:4-5 Ezra 9:2 1 Thessalonians 3:6 Acts 14:1 2 Corinthians 1:1 2 Timothy 3:15-16 -
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Timothy was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium,
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- 3 and desiring that he should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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As they journeyed on from town to town, they handed to the brethren for their observance the decisions which had been arrived at by the Apostles and Elders in .
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So the Churches went on gaining a stronger and growing in numbers from day to day.
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Acts 9:31 Acts 2:47 Acts 6:7 Acts 15:41 Acts 13:48-49 Romans 16:25 1 Thessalonians 3:2 Ephesians 4:13-16 1 Peter 5:10 2 Thessalonians 2:16 1 Corinthians 15:58 Isaiah 7:9 Acts 11:21 Galatians 5:1 Colossians 2:6 Acts 12:24 Acts 4:4 Acts 19:18-21 Acts 5:14 Hebrews 13:9 Hebrews 13:20-21 1 Thessalonians 3:13 2 Chronicles 20:20 -
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Then and his companions passed through Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy to proclaim the Message in the province of Asia.
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When they reached the frontier of Mysia, they were about to enter Bithynia, but the of would not permit this.
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So, passing along Mysia, they came to Troas.
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Here, one night, saw a vision. There was a Macedonian who was standing, entreating him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”
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Acts 18:5 Acts 19:21 Romans 15:26 Acts 10:3 1 Thessalonians 4:10 Acts 27:23-24 Acts 20:1 Acts 11:5-14 2 Corinthians 9:2 2 Corinthians 11:9 Acts 20:3 Acts 9:10-12 Acts 18:9-10 Acts 8:26-31 Acts 10:30 Acts 2:17-18 Romans 10:14-15 2 Corinthians 8:1 Acts 9:38 Acts 10:32-33 2 Corinthians 12:1-4 2 Corinthians 7:5 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8 Acts 22:17-21 Acts 10:10-17 2 Corinthians 12:7 - 10 So when he had seen the vision, we immediately looked out for an opportunity of passing on into Macedonia, confidently inferring that had called us to proclaim the Good News to the people there.
- 11 Accordingly we put out to sea from Troas, and ran a straight course to Samothrace. The next day we came to Neapolis,
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and thence to Philippi, which is a city in Macedonia, the first in its district, a Roman colony. And there we stayed some little time.
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- 13 On the Sabbath we went beyond the city gate to the riverside, where we had reason to believe that there was a place for prayer; and sitting down we talked with the women who had come together.
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Among our hearers was one named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods. She belonged to the city of Thyateira, and was a worshipper of the true . The Lord opened her , so that she gave attention to what was saying.
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Luke 24:45 Acts 18:7 Revelation 1:11 Philippians 2:13 Romans 9:16 2 Corinthians 3:14-16 Song of Solomon 5:4 Revelation 3:7 John 6:44-45 Acts 10:2 Ephesians 1:17-18 John 12:20 Psalm 110:3 Revelation 3:20 Acts 8:27 Acts 11:21 Isaiah 50:5 James 1:16-17 Revelation 2:18-24 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 -
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When she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, “If in your judgement I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she made us go there.
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Acts 11:14 Hebrews 13:2 Acts 16:33 Genesis 19:3 Luke 24:29 Philemon 1:17 Matthew 10:41 Luke 9:4-5 Philippians 1:7 Ephesians 1:1 Acts 8:38 Acts 18:8 Galatians 6:10 Luke 10:5-7 Genesis 33:11 Romans 16:23 3 John 1:8 Genesis 18:4-5 Acts 8:12 Luke 14:23 3 John 1:5 Judges 19:19-21 1 Corinthians 1:13-16 2 John 1:10 2 Corinthians 12:11 1 Peter 5:12 2 Kings 4:8 1 Samuel 28:23 2 Corinthians 5:14 - 16 One day, as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who claimed to be inspired and was accustomed to bring her owners large profits by telling fortunes.
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She kept following close behind and the rest of us, crying aloud, “These men are the bondservants of the Most High , and are proclaiming to you the way of .”
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This she persisted in for a considerable time, until , wearied out, turned round and said to the , “I command you in the of the to come out of her.” And it came out immediately.
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- 19 But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized and Silas and dragged them off to the magistrates in the public square.
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Then they brought them before the praetors. “These men,” they said, “are creating a great disturbance in our city.
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They are Jews, and are teaching customs which we, as Romans, are not permitted to adopt or practise.”
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- 22 The crowd, too, joined in the outcry against them, till at length the praetors ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods;
- 23 and, after severely flogging them, they threw them into jail and bade the jailer keep them safely.
- 24 He, having received an order like that, lodged them in the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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About midnight and Silas were praying and singing hymns to , and the prisoners were listening to them,
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Psalm 77:6 James 1:2 Job 35:10 Psalm 119:62 1 Peter 1:6-8 Philippians 4:4-7 Hebrews 5:7 Colossians 3:15-17 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Ephesians 5:19 Psalm 22:2 Acts 5:41 Matthew 26:38-39 Ezra 3:12-13 Psalm 50:15 Matthew 5:10-11 Romans 5:3 Isaiah 30:29 2 Corinthians 6:10 Luke 6:22-23 Psalm 91:15 Psalm 71:7 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Psalm 34:1 Colossians 1:24 Luke 22:44 Romans 12:12 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Psalm 42:8 Zechariah 3:8 Psalm 119:55 Philippians 2:17 Psalm 77:2 1 Peter 4:14 James 5:13 - 26 when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the doors all flew open, and the chains fell off from every prisoner.
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Starting up from sleep and seeing the doors of the jail wide open, the jailer drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
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- 28 But shouted loudly to him, saying, “Do yourself no injury: we are all here.
- 29 Then, calling for lights, he sprang in and fell trembling at the feet of and Silas;
- 30 and, bringing them out of the prison, he exclaimed, “O sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
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“Believe on the Lord ,” they replied, “and both you and your household will be saved.”
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John 1:12 Acts 2:38-39 Isaiah 45:22 Acts 11:13-14 John 3:36 Mark 16:16 Acts 15:11 Galatians 3:26 Genesis 17:7 Acts 16:15 Genesis 18:19 John 6:47 Galatians 3:22 Romans 10:9-10 John 11:25-26 Acts 13:38-39 Acts 8:36 Acts 4:12 Jeremiah 32:39 John 6:40 John 3:15-16 John 7:37-38 Habakkuk 2:4 Acts 18:8 Romans 5:1-2 Acts 16:32 Galatians 3:14 1 John 5:10-13 John 20:31 Ephesians 2:7-8 Romans 11:16 -
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And they told the Lord’s Message to him as well as to all who were in his house.
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- 33 Then he took them, even at that time of night, washed their wounds, and he and all his household were immediately baptized;
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and bringing the Apostles up into his house, he spread a meal for them, and was filled with gladness, with his whole household, his resting on .
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In the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, “Release those men.”
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So the jailer brought , saying, “The praetors have sent orders for you to be released. Now therefore you can go, and proceed on your way in .”
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But said to them, “After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out.”
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This answer the lictors took back to the praetors, who were alarmed when they were told that and Silas were Roman citizens.
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Accordingly they came and apologized to them; and, bringing them out, asked them to leave the city.
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- 40 Then and Silas, having come out of the prison, went to Lydia’s house; and, after seeing the brethren and encouraging them, they left Philippi.