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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 [he] came to them.
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| 18:3 |
And because he was of the same occupation, he abode with them, and wrought (for by their occupation they were tent-makers)
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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 Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in 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 to them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads: I [am] clean: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.
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| 18:7 |
And he departed thence, and entered into the house of a certain man named Justus, [one] that worshiped God, whose house joined close 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 the Lord spoke 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 lay hands on thee, to hurt thee: for I have many 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 [man] 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 to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong, or hainous crime, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
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| 18:15 |
But if it is 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 drove 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 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 to you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
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| 18:22 |
And when he had landed at Cesarea, 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 spoke 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 to [them], and expounded to 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 had come, helped them much who had believed through grace.
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| 18:28 |
For he mightily convinced the Jews, [and that] publicly, showing by the scriptures, that Jesus was Christ.
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