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But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [fn] we shall be saved in the same manner as they."

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, [fn] from things strangled, and from blood.

But Paul insisted that they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

but Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended by the brethren to the grace of God.

Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek.

After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit [fn] did not permit them.

And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And he came out that very hour.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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

But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out."

But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, [fn] took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.

Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent;