Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer.
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We'll be reading today from the
King James version in the book
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of Acts, but before we
begin lets pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so
much for the opportunity to
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come apart from the things that
fill our days, and to come into
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Your presence, and
to read Your words.
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Please send the Holy Spirit now
to guide our minds and to give
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us a deeper understanding of
the truth and the life that Your
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word has for each one of us.
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We love you.
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Thank you.
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Amen.
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We are reading again
from the book of Acts.
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And when we were last together
we were reading how the church
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in Jerusalem sent a letter to
the new believers, the Gentiles
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in Antioch.
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And they sent their two
prophets, Judas and Silas.
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We'll pick up now in
Chapter 15, verse 34.
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Notwithstanding it pleased
Silas to abide there still.
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Paul also and Barnabas continued
in Antioch, teaching and
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preaching the word of the
Lord, with many others also.
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And some days after, Paul said
unto Barnabas, Let us go again
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and visit our brethren in every
city where we have preached the
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word of the Lord,
and see how they do.
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And Barnabas determined
to take him with them John,
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whose surname was Mark.
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But Paul thought not good to
take him with them, who departed
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from them from Pamphylia, and
went not with them to the work.
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And the contention was so sharp
between them, that they departed
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asunder one from the other:
and so Barnabas took Mark,
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and sailed unto Cyprus; and
Paul chose Silas, and departed,
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being recommended by the
brethren unto the grace of God.
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And he went
through Syria and Cilicia,
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confirming the churches.
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We're reading from the book
of Acts, the King James Version,
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Chapter 16.
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Then came he to Derbe and
Lystra: and, behold, a certain
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disciple was there, named
Timotheus, the son of a certain
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woman which was a Jewest, and
believed that his father was a
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Greek: which was well reported
of by the brethren that were at
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Lystra and Iconium.
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Him would Paul have to go
forth with him; and took and
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circumcised him because of
the Jews which were in those
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quarters: for they knew all
that his father was a Greek.
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And as they went through
the cities, they delivered them
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the decrees for to keep, that
were ordained of the apostles
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and elders which
were at Jerusalem.
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And so were the churches
established in the faith,
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and increased in number daily.
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Now when they had gone
throughout Phrygia and the
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region of Galatia, and were
forbidden of the Holy Ghost to
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preach the word in Asia,
after they were come to Mysia,
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they assayed to go into
Bithynia: but the Spirit
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suffered them not.
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And they passing by
Mysia came down to Troas.
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And a vision appeared to Paul in
the night; There stood a man of
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Macedonia, and prayed
him, saying, Come over into
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Macedonia, and help us.
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And after he had seen
the vision, immediately we
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endeavored to go into Macedonia,
assuredly gathering that
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the Lord had called us for
to preach the gospel unto them.
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Therefore loosing from Troas, we
came with a straight course to
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Samothracia, and the next day
to Neapolis; and from thence to
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Philippi, which is the chief
city of that part of Macedonia,
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and a colony: and we were in
that city abiding certain days.
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And on the Sabbath we went
out of the city by a river side,
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where prayer was wont to
be made; and we sat down,
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and spake unto the
women which resorted thither.
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And a certain woman named Lydia,
a seller of purple, of the city
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of Thyatira, which worshiped
God, heard us: whose heart the
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Lord opened, that she attended
unto the things which were
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spoken of Paul.
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And when she was baptized, and
her household, she besought us,
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saying, If ye have judged
me to be faithful to the Lord,
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come into my
house, and abide there.
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And she constrained us.
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And it came to pass, as we
went to prayer, a certain damsel
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possessed with a spirit of
divination met us, which brought
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her masters much gain by
soothsaying: the same followed
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Paul and us, and cried, saying,
These men are the servants of
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the most high God, which show
unto us the way of salvation.
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And this did she many days.
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But Paul, being grieved,
turned and said to the spirit,
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I command thee in the name of
Jesus Christ to come out of her.
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And he came out the same hour.
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And when her masters saw
that the hope of their gains was
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gone, they caught Paul and
Silas, and drew them into the
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market place unto the rulers.
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And brought them to the
magistrates, saying, These men,
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being Jews, do exceedingly
trouble our city, and teach
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customs, which are not lawful
for us to receive, neither to
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observe, being Romans.
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And the multitude rose
up together against them;
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and the magistrates
rent off their clothes,
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and commanded to beat them.
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And when they had laid
many stripes upon them,
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they cast them into prison,
charging the jailer to keep them
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safely: who, having received
such a charge, thrust them into
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the inner prison, and made
their feet fast in the stocks.
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And at midnight Paul and Silas
prayed, and sang praises unto
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God: and the
prisoners heard them.
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And suddenly there was a
great earthquake, so that the
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foundations of the prison were
shaken: and immediately all the
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doors were opened, and
every one's bands were loosed.
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And the keeper of the
prison awaking out of his sleep,
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and seeing the prison doors
open, he drew out his sword,
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and would have killed himself,
supposing that the prisoners
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had been fled.
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But Paul cried with a loud
voice, saying, Do thyself no
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harm: for we are all here.
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Then he called for a light, and
sprang in, and came trembling,
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and fell down before Paul
and Silas, and brought them out,
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and said, Sirs, what
must I do to be saved?
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And they said, Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ,
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and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house.
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And they spake unto him the word
of the Lord, and to all that
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were in his house.
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And he took them the same hour
of the night, and washed their
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stripes; and was baptized,
he and all his, straightway.
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And when he had brought
them into his house, he set meat
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before them, and
rejoiced, believing in God with
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all his house.
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And when it was day, the
magistrates sent the sergeants,
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saying, Let those men go.
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And the keeper of the
prison told this saying to Paul,
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The magistrates have sent to let
you go: now therefore depart,
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and go in peace.
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But Paul said unto them,
They have beaten us openly
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uncondemned, being Romans,
and have cast us into prison;
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and now do they thrust
us out privily? nay verily;
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but let them come
themselves and fetch us out.
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And the sergeants told these
words unto the magistrates:
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and they feared, when they
heard that they were Romans.
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And they came and besought
them, and brought them out,
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and desired them to
depart out of the city.
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And they went out of the prison,
and entered into the house of
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Lydia: and when they had seen
the brethren, they comforted
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them, and departed.
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We're reading from the
book of Acts, Chapter 17.
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Now when they had passed through
Amphipolis and Apollonia,
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they came to Thessalonica, where
was a synagogue of the Jews:
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and Paul, as his
manner was, went in unto them,
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and three Sabbath days reasoned
with them out of the Scriptures,
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opening and alleging, that
Christ must needs have suffered,
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and risen again from the
dead; and that this Jesus,
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whom I preach
unto you, is Christ.
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And some of them believed, and
consorted with Paul and Silas;
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and of the devout Greeks a great
multitude, and of the chief
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women not a few.
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But the Jews which believed not,
moved with envy, took unto them
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certain lewd fellows of
the baser sort, and gathered a
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company, and set all the city
on an uproar, and assaulted the
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house of Jason, and sought
to bring them out to the people.
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And when they found them
not, they drew Jason and certain
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brethren unto the rulers of the
city, crying, These that have
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turned the world upside down
are come hither also; whom Jason
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hath received: and these all
do contrary to the decrees of
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Caesar, saying that there
is another king, one Jesus.
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And they troubled the people
and the rulers of the city,
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when they heard these things.
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And when they had taken security
of Jason, and of the other,
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they let them go.
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And the brethren immediately
sent away Paul and Silas by
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night unto Berea: who coming
thither went into the synagogue
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of the Jews.
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These were more noble than those
in Thessalonica, in that they
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received the word with all
readiness of mind, and searched
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the scriptures daily,
whether those things were so.
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Therefore many of them believed;
also of honorable women which
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were Greeks, and
of men, not a few.
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But when the Jews of
Thessalonica had knowledge that
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the word of God was preached of
Paul at Berea, they came thither
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also, and stirred up the people.
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And then immediately the
brethren sent away Paul to go as
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it were to the sea: but Silas
and Timotheus abode there still.
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And they that conducted
Paul brought him unto Athens;
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and receiving a commandment
unto Silas and Timotheus for to
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come to him with all
speed, they departed.
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Now while Paul waited for
them at Athens, his spirit was
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stirred in him, when he saw the
city wholly given to idolatry.
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Therefore disputed he in
the synagogue with the Jews,
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and with the devout persons, and
in the market daily with them
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that met with him.
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Then certain philosophers of the
Epicureans, and of the Stoics,
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encountered him.
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And some said, What will
this babbler say? other some,
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He seemeth to be a setter forth
of strange gods: because he
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preached unto them
Jesus, and the resurrection.
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And they took him, and brought
him unto Areopagus, saying,
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May we know what
this new doctrine, whereof
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thou speakest, is?
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For thou bringest certain
strange things to our ears:
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we would know therefore
what these things mean.
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(For all the Athenians and
strangers which were there spent
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their time in nothing else,
but either to tell or to hear
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some new thing.)
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Then Paul stood in the
midst of Mars' hill, and said,
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Ye men of Athens, I
perceive that in all things ye
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are too superstitious.
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For as I passed by, and beheld
your devotions, I found an altar
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with this
inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
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Whom therefore ye ignorantly
worship, him declare I unto you.
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God that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that he
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is Lord of heaven and
earth, dwelleth not in temples
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made with hands; neither
is worshiped with men's hands,
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as though he needed any thing,
seeing he giveth to all life,
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and breath, and all things;
and hath made of one blood all
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nations of men for to dwell
on all the face of the earth,
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and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds
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of their habitation; that
they should seek the Lord,
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if haply they might feel after
him, and find him, though he be
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not far from every one of us:
for in him we live, and move,
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and have our being; as certain
also of your own poets have
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said, For we are
also his offspring.
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Forasmuch then as we are the
offspring of God, we ought not
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to think that the Godhead
is like unto gold, or silver,
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or stone, graven by
art and man's device.
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And the times of this
ignorance God winked at; but now
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commandeth all men everywhere
to repent: because he hath
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appointed a day, in the
which he will judge the world in
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righteousness by that man whom
he hath ordained; whereof he
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hath given assurance unto all
men, in that he hath raised him
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from the dead.
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And when they heard of
the resurrection of the dead,
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some mocked: and others
said, We will hear thee again
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of this matter.
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So Paul
departed from among them.
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Howbeit certain men clave unto
him, and believed: among the
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which was Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named
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Damaris, and others with them.
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We're reading in the
book of Acts, Chapter 18.
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After these things Paul departed
from Athens, and came to
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Corinth; and found a certain Jew
named Aquila, born in Pontus,
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lately come from Italy, with his
wife Priscilla, (because that
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Claudius had commanded
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