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And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue.

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

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

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

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aq'uila heard him, they took him and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, arguing and pleading about the kingdom of God;

And God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law,

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cili'cia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gama'li-el, educated according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as you all are this day.

And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One and to hear a voice from his mouth;

And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, "Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience up to this day."

Then Paul said to him, "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"

But this I admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the law or written in the prophets,

having a hope in God which these themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.