Chapter 14, verses 15-26
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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.
