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Acts 13
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Now there
were
in the
church that
was
at
Antioch
certain
prophets
and
teachers;
as
Barnabas,
and
Simeon that was
called
Niger,
and
Lucius of
Cyrene,
and
Manaen, which had been brought
up with
Herod the
tetrarch,
and
Saul.
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As
they
ministered to the
Lord,
and
fasted, the
Holy
Ghost
said
*,
Separate
me
*
Barnabas
and
Saul
for the
work
whereunto I have
called
them.
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And when they had
fasted
and
prayed,
and
laid their
hands
on
them, they sent them
away.
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So
*
they, being sent
forth
by the
Holy
Ghost,
departed
unto
Seleucia; and
from
thence they
sailed
to
Cyprus.
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And when they
were
at
Salamis, they
preached the
word of
God
in the
synagogues of the
Jews:
and they
had
also
John to their
minister.
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And when they had gone
through the
isle
unto
Paphos, they
found a
certain
sorcerer, a false
prophet, a
Jew,
whose
name was
Barjesus:
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Which
was
with the deputy of the
country,
Sergius
Paulus, a
prudent
man;
who
called for
Barnabas
and
Saul, and
desired to
hear the
word of
God.
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But
Elymas the
sorcerer
* (for
so is
his
name by
interpretation )
withstood
them,
seeking to turn
away the
deputy
from the
faith.
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Then
Saul,
* (who
also is called
Paul,) filled
with the
Holy
Ghost
*, set his
eyes
on
him,
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said,
O
full of
all
subtilty
and
all
mischief, thou
child of the
devil, thou
enemy of
all
righteousness, wilt
thou
not
cease to
pervert the
right
ways of the
Lord?
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And
now,
behold, the
hand of the
Lord is
upon
thee,
and thou shalt
be
blind,
not
seeing the
sun
for a
season.
And
immediately there
fell
on
him a
mist
and a
darkness;
and he went
about
seeking some to lead him by the
hand.
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Then the
deputy, when he
saw what was
done,
believed, being
astonished
at the
doctrine of the
Lord.
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Now when
Paul and his
company
loosed
from
Paphos, they
came
to
Perga in
Pamphylia:
and
John
departing
from
them
returned
to
Jerusalem.
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But when
they
departed
from
Perga, they
came
to
Antioch in
Pisidia,
and
went
into the
synagogue on the
sabbath
day, and sat
down.
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And
after the
reading of the
law
and the
prophets the rulers of the
synagogue
sent
unto
them,
saying, Ye
men and
brethren,
if ye
have
*
any
word of
exhortation
for the
people, say
on.
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Then
Paul stood
up,
and
beckoning with his
hand
said,
Men of
Israel,
and ye that
fear
God, give
audience.
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- 13:17 The
God of
this
people of
Israel
chose
our
fathers,
and
exalted the
people
when they dwelt as
strangers
in the
land of
Egypt,
and
with an
high
arm brought
he
them out
of
it.
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And
about the
time of forty
years suffered
he
their
manners
in the
wilderness.
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And when he had
destroyed
seven
nations
in the
land of
Chanaan, he
divided
their
land to
them by
lot.
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And
after
that he
gave unto them
judges
about the space of four
hundred
and
fifty
years,
until
Samuel the
prophet.
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afterward they
desired a
king:
and
God
gave unto
them
Saul the
son of
Cis, a
man
of the
tribe of
Benjamin, by the space of
forty
years.
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And when he had
removed
him, he raised
up unto
them
David to
be their
king; to
whom
also he gave
testimony, and
said, I have
found
David the son of
Jesse, a
man
after mine
own
heart,
which shall
fulfil
all
my
will.
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Of this
man's
seed
hath
God
according to his
promise
raised unto
Israel a
Saviour,
Jesus:
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- 13:24 When
John had first
preached
before
his
coming
the
baptism of
repentance to
all the
people of
Israel.
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And
as
John
fulfilled his
course, he
said,
Whom think
ye that
I
am ?
I
am
not he.
But,
behold, there cometh
one
after
me,
whose
shoes of his
feet I
am
not
worthy to
loose.
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Men and
brethren,
children of the
stock of
Abraham,
and whosoever
among
you
feareth
God, to
you
is the
word of
this
salvation
sent.
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For they that
dwell
at
Jerusalem,
and
their
rulers, because they
knew
him
not, nor
yet the
voices of the
prophets
which are
read
*
every sabbath
day, they have
fulfilled them in
condemning him.
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And though they
found
no
cause of
death in him, yet desired
they
Pilate that
he should be
slain.
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And
when they had
fulfilled
all that was
written
of
him, they took him
down
from the
tree, and
laid him
in a
sepulchre.
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But
God
raised
him
from the
dead:
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he was
seen
many
*
days of them which came up
with
him
from
Galilee
to
Jerusalem,
who
are
his
witnesses
unto the
people.
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And
we
declare unto
you glad
tidings, how
that the
promise which was
made
unto the
fathers,
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God hath
fulfilled the
same unto
us
their
children, in that he hath raised
up
Jesus
again;
as it
is
also
written
in the
second
psalm,
Thou
art
my
Son, this
day have
I
begotten
thee.
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And as concerning
that he
raised
him
up
from the
dead, now no
more
to
return
to
corruption, he
said on this
wise
*, I will
give
you the
sure
mercies of
David.
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Wherefore he
saith
also
in
another psalm, Thou
shalt
not
suffer
thine Holy
One to
see
corruption.
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For
*
David, after he had
served his
own
generation by the
will of
God, fell on
sleep,
and was
laid
unto
his
fathers,
and
saw
corruption:
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But he,
whom
God raised
again,
saw
no
corruption.
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- 13:38 Be
it
known unto
you
therefore,
men and
brethren,
that
through this
man is
preached unto
you the
forgiveness of
sins:
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And
by
him
all that
believe are
justified
from all
things, from
which ye
could
not be
justified
by the
law of
Moses.
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- 13:40
Beware
therefore, lest
that
come
upon
you, which is spoken
of
in the
prophets;
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- 13:41
Behold, ye
despisers,
and
wonder,
and
perish:
for
I
work a
work
in
your
days, a
work
which ye
shall in no
wise
believe,
though a
man declare
it unto
you.
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And when the
Jews were
gone out
of the
synagogue, the
Gentiles
besought that
these
words might be
preached to
them
the
next
sabbath.
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Now when the
congregation was broken
up,
many of the
Jews
and
religious
proselytes
followed
Paul
and
Barnabas:
who,
speaking to
them,
persuaded
them to
continue in the
grace of
God.
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And the
next sabbath
day
came
almost the
whole
city
together to
hear the
word of
God.
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But when the
Jews
saw the
multitudes, they were
filled with
envy,
and spake
against those things which were
spoken
by
Paul,
contradicting
and
blaspheming.
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Then
Paul
and
Barnabas waxed
bold, and
said, It
was
necessary that the
word of
God
should
first have been
spoken to
you:
but
seeing ye
put
it from
you,
and
judge
yourselves
unworthy
of
everlasting
life,
lo, we
turn
to the
Gentiles.
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For
so
hath the
Lord
commanded
us, saying, I have
set
thee to
be a
light of the
Gentiles, that
thou shouldest
be
for
salvation
unto the
ends of the
earth.
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- 13:48
And when the
Gentiles heard
this, they were
glad,
and
glorified the
word of the
Lord:
and as many
as
were
ordained
to
eternal
life
believed.
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- 13:49
And the
word of the
Lord was
published
throughout
all the
region.
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- 13:50
But the
Jews stirred
up the
devout
and
honourable
women,
and the chief
men of the
city,
and
raised
persecution
against
Paul
and
Barnabas,
and
expelled
them out
of
their
coasts.
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- 13:51
But they shook
off the
dust of
their
feet
against
them, and
came
unto
Iconium.
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- 13:52
And the
disciples were filled
with
joy,
and with the
Holy
Ghost.
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