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"Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, "These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.

And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

"For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.

And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

but taking leave of them and saying, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.