Study Desk

After Paul had seen the vision, we began looking for a way to go to Macedonia. We were sure that God had called us to preach the good news there.

One of them was Lydia, who was from the city of Thyatira and sold expensive purple cloth. She was a worshiper of the Lord God, and he made her willing to accept what Paul was saying.

The girl followed Paul and the rest of us and kept yelling, "These men are servants of the Most High God! They are telling you how to be saved."

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing praises to God, while the other prisoners listened.

They were very glad that they had put their faith in God. After this, the jailer took Paul and Silas to his home and gave them something to eat.

As I was going through your city and looking at the things you worship, I found an altar with the words, "To an Unknown God." You worship this God, but you don't really know him. So I want to tell you about him.

This God made the world and everything in it. He is Lord of heaven and earth, and he doesn't live in temples built by human hands.

From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us,

In the past, God forgave all this because people did not know what they were doing. But now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him.

He has set a day when he will judge the world's people with fairness. And he has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death.

Paul then moved into the house of a man named Titius Justus, who worshiped God and lived next door to the Jewish meeting place.

and said, "This man is trying to make our people worship God in a way that is against our Law!"

After Paul had stayed for a while with the Lord's followers in Corinth, he told them good-by and sailed on to Syria with Aquila and Priscilla. But before he left, he had his head shaved at Cenchreae because he had made a promise to God.

He told them good-by and said, "If God lets me, I will come back."

Paul replied, "John baptized people so that they would turn to God. But he also told them that someone else was coming, and that they should put their faith in him. Jesus is the one that John was talking about."

God gave Paul the power to work great miracles.

I told Jews and Gentiles to turn to God and have faith in our Lord Jesus.

I have told you everything God wants you to know.

Paul greeted them and told how God had used him to help the Gentiles.