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For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who affirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders.

In Lystra sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.

Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.

Then Paul and Silas spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.

At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.

Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesar's decrees, saying there is another king, named Jesus!"

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

'For in Him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are His offspring.'

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

Paul remained in Corinth for quite some time before saying goodbye to the brothers. He had his head shaved in Cenchrea to keep a vow he had made, and then he sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.

When Apollos resolved to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival, he greatly aided those who by grace had believed.