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And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." So she persuaded us.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.

So they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."

So the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace."

So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

So those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed.

so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

So Paul departed from among them.

So, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked; for by occupation they were tentmakers.

So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.

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

he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him, "We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit."

And he said to them, "Into what then were you baptized?" So they said, "Into John's baptism."

And this continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.

Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered [fn] them, and prevailed against them, [fn] so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.