Chapter 13, verse 34 - Chapter 15, verse 4
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“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
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Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’
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For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
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But he whom God raised up saw no decay.
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Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
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and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
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‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish
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So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
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Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas
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The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
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Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
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For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
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As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
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The Lord’s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
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But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
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But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
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The disciples were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 14
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It happened in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
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But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
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Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
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But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
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they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
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There they preached the Good News.
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At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
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He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
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said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
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When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
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They called Barnabas “Jupiter,” and Paul “Mercury,” because he was the chief speaker.
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The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
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But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
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“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them
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who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
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Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
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Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
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But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
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But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
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When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
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confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
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When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
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They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
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When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
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From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
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When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
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They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
Chapter 15
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Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
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Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
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They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
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When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.
