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Acts 18
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- 18:1
After these
things
Paul
departed
from
Athens, and
came
to
Corinth;
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- 18:2
And
found a
certain
Jew
named
Aquila,
born in
Pontus,
lately
come
from
Italy,
with
his
wife
Priscilla; (because
that
Claudius had
commanded
all
Jews to
depart
from
Rome:) and
came unto
them.
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- 18:3
And
because he
was of the same
craft, he
abode
with
them,
and
wrought:
for by their
occupation they
were
tentmakers.
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- 18:4
And he
reasoned
in the
synagogue
*
every
sabbath,
and
persuaded the
Jews
and the
Greeks.
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- 18:5
And
when
*
Silas
and
Timotheus were
come
from
Macedonia,
Paul was
pressed in the
spirit, and
testified to the
Jews that
Jesus was
Christ.
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- 18:6
And when they
opposed
themselves,
and
blasphemed, he
shook his
raiment, and
said
unto
them,
Your
blood be
upon
your own
heads;
I am
clean:
from
henceforth I will
go
unto the
Gentiles.
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- 18:7
And he
departed
thence, and
entered
into a
certain man's
house,
named
Justus, one that
worshipped
God,
whose
house joined
hard
* to the
synagogue.
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- 18:8
And
Crispus, the chief ruler of the
synagogue,
believed on the
Lord
with
all
his
house;
and
many of the
Corinthians
hearing
believed,
and were
baptized.
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- 18:9
Then
spake the
Lord to
Paul
in the
night
by a
vision,
Be
not
afraid ,
but
speak,
and
hold
not thy
peace:
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- 18:10
For
I
am
with
thee,
and no
man shall set
on
thee to
hurt
thee:
for
I
have
much
people
in
this
city.
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- 18:11
And he
continued there a
year
and
six
months,
teaching the
word of
God
among
them.
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- 18:12
And when
Gallio was the
deputy of
Achaia, the
Jews made
insurrection with one accord
against
Paul,
and
brought
him
to the judgment
seat,
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- 18:13
Saying
*,
This fellow
persuadeth
men to
worship
God
contrary to the
law.
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- 18:14
And when
Paul was now
about to
open his
mouth,
Gallio
said
unto the
Jews,
If
*
it
were
a matter of
wrong
or
wicked
lewdness,
O ye
Jews,
reason
*
would that I should
bear with
you:
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- 18:15
But
if it
be a
question
of
words
and
names,
and
of
your
law, look
ye
* to it;
for
I will
be
*
no
judge of
such matters.
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- 18:16
And he
drave
them
from the judgment
seat.
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- 18:17
Then
all the
Greeks
took
Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
synagogue, and
beat him
before the judgment
seat.
And
Gallio
cared for
none of those
things.
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- 18:18
And
Paul after this
tarried there
yet a
good
while, and then took his
leave of the
brethren, and sailed
thence
into
Syria,
and
with
him
Priscilla
and
Aquila; having
shorn his
head
in
Cenchrea:
for he
had a
vow.
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- 18:19
And he
came
to
Ephesus,
and
left them
there:
but he
himself
entered
into the
synagogue, and reasoned
with the
Jews.
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- 18:20
When
they
desired him to
tarry
longer
*
time
with
them, he
consented
not;
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- 18:21
But
bade
them
farewell,
saying,
I
must by all
means
keep this
feast that
cometh
in
Jerusalem:
but I will
return
again
unto
you, if
God
will.
And he
sailed
from
Ephesus.
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- 18:22
And when he had
landed
at
Caesarea, and gone
up,
and
saluted the
church, he went
down
to
Antioch.
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- 18:23
And after he had
spent
some
time there, he
departed, and went
over all the
country of
Galatia
and
Phrygia in
order,
strengthening
all the
disciples.
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- 18:24
And a
certain
Jew
named
Apollos,
born at
Alexandria, an
eloquent
man, and
mighty
*
in the
scriptures,
came
to
Ephesus.
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- 18:25 This
man
was instructed
in the
way of the
Lord;
and being
fervent in the
spirit, he
spake
and
taught
diligently the things
of the
Lord,
knowing
only the
baptism of
John.
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- 18:26
And
he
began to speak
boldly
in the
synagogue:
whom
when
Aquila
and
Priscilla had
heard, they
took
him unto them,
and
expounded unto
him the
way of
God more
perfectly.
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- 18:27
And when
he was
disposed to
pass
into
Achaia, the
brethren
wrote,
exhorting the
disciples to
receive
him:
who, when he was
come, helped
them
much which had
believed
through
grace:
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- 18:28
For he
mightily
convinced the
Jews, and that
publickly,
shewing
by the
scriptures that
Jesus
was
Christ.
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