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When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to do miraculous signs and wonders.

But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe.

Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.

Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself.

that have been known for ages.

"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."

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

The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message.

They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,

Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.

After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.

Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.

She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.

by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."