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So he left the place and went to the house of a person called Titius Justus, a worshipper of the true God. His house was next door to the synagogue.

So Paul remained in Corinth for a year and six months, teaching among them the Message of God.

"This man," they said, "is inducing people to offer unlawful worship to God."

but took leave of them with the promise, "I will return to you, God willing." So he set sail from Ephesus.

Afterwards he went into the synagogue. There for three months he continued to preach fearlessly, explaining in words which carried conviction the truths which concern the Kingdom of God.

God also brought about extraordinary miracles through Paul's instrumentality.

and urging upon both Jews and Greeks the necessity of turning to God and of believing in Jesus our Lord.

"Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.

"And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace. He is able to build you up and to give you your inheritance among His people.

After exchanging friendly greetings, Paul told in detail all that God had done among the Gentiles through his instrumentality.

And they, when they had heard his statement, gave the glory to God. Then they said, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of Jews there are among those who have accepted the faith, and they are all zealous upholders of the Law.

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God.

Then he said, `The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the righteous One and hear Him speak.

Then Paul, fixing a steady gaze on the Sanhedrin, said, "Brethren, it is with a perfectly clear conscience that I have discharged my duties before God up to this day."

"Before long," exclaimed Paul, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me in accordance with the Law, and do you yourself actually break the Law by ordering me to be struck?"

But this I confess to you--that in the way which they style a heresy, I worship the God of our forefathers, believing everything that is taught in the Law or is written in the Prophets,

and having a hope directed towards God, which my accusers themselves also entertain, that before long there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.

And now I stand here impeached because of my hope in the fulfilment of the promise made by God to our forefathers--

Why is it deemed with all of you a thing past belief if God raises the dead to life?