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Acts 15

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And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

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A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

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They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of [those of] the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.

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And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all that God had wrought with them.

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And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among [them], saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

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And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

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And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, *ye* know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

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And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving [them] the Holy Spirit as to us also,

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and put no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith.

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Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

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But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also.

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And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.

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And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me:

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Simon has related how God first visited to take out of [the] nations a people for his name.

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And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written:

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After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up,

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so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who does these things

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known from eternity.

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Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;

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but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

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For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

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Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren,

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having by their hand written [thus]: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among [the] nations at Antioch, and [in] Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

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Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, [saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law]; to whom we gave no commandment;

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it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

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men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will tell you by word [of mouth] the same things.

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For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

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to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

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They therefore, being let go, came to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude delivered to [them] the epistle.

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And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.

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And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.

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And having passed some time [there], they were let go in peace from the brethren to those who sent them.

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And Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and announcing the glad tidings, with many others also, of the word of the Lord.

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But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are getting on.

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And Barnabas proposed to take with [them] John also, called Mark;

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but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

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There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed away to Cyprus;

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but Paul having chosen Silas went forth, committed by the brethren to the grace of God.

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And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.

Acts 16

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And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish believing woman, but [the] father a Greek,

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who had a [good] testimony of the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

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Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took [him and] circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.

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And as they passed through the cities they instructed them to observe the decrees determined on by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.

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The assemblies therefore were confirmed in the faith, and increased in number every day.

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And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

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having come down to Mysia, they attempted to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;

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and having passed by Mysia they descended to Troas.

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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.

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And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go forth to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to announce to them the glad tidings.

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Having sailed therefore away from Troas, we went in a straight course to Samothracia, and on the morrow to Neapolis,

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and thence to Philippi, which is [the] first city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city certain days.

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And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had assembled.

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And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

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And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide [there]. And she constrained us.

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And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her masters by prophesying.

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She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you [the] way of salvation.

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And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed, turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.

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And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged [them] into the market before the magistrates;

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and having brought them up to the praetors, said, These men utterly trouble our city, being Jews,

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and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to receive nor practise, being Romans.

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And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].

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And having laid many stripes upon them they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;

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who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.

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And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.

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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.

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And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.

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But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here.

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And having asked for lights, he rushed in, and, trembling, fell down before Paul and Silas.

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And leading them out said, Sirs, what must I do that I may be saved?

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And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house.

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And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, with all that were in his house.

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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed [them] from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his straightway.

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And having brought them into his house he laid the table [for them], and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.

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And when it was day, the praetors sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go.

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And the jailor reported these words to Paul: The praetors have sent that ye may be let go. Now therefore go out and depart in peace.

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But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison, and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them come themselves and bring us out.

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And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.

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And they came and besought them, and having brought them out, asked them to go out of the city.

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And having gone out of the prison, they came to Lydia; and having seen the brethren, they exhorted them and went away.

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