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Acts 16:14

Contemporary English Version 1995

One of them was Lydia, who was from the city of Thyatira and sold expensive purple cloth. She was a worshiper of the Lord God, and he made her willing to accept what Paul was saying.

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Then he helped them understand the Scriptures.

he made me willing to listen and not rebel or run away.

Listen! I am standing and knocking at your door. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and we will eat together.

Everything then depends on God's mercy and not on what people want or do.

God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him.

The Lord's power was with them, and many people turned to the Lord and put their faith in him.

This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: I am the one who is holy and true, and I have the keys that belonged to David. When I open a door, no one can close it. And when I close a door, no one can open it. Listen to what I say.

Paul then moved into the house of a man named Titius Justus, who worshiped God and lived next door to the synagogue.

The voice said, “Write in a book what you see. Then send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Cornelius was a very religious man. He worshiped God, and so did everyone else who lived in his house. He had given a lot of money to the poor and was always praying to God.

So Philip left. An important Ethiopian official happened to be going along that road in his chariot. He was the chief treasurer for Candace, the Queen of Ethiopia. The official had gone to Jerusalem to worship

Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover.

Then my darling's hand reached to open the latch, and my heart stood still.

Your glorious power will be seen on the day you begin to rule. You will wear the sacred robes and shine like the morning sun in all of your strength.

After the service, many Jews and a lot of Gentiles who worshiped God went with them. Paul and Barnabas begged them all to remain faithful to God, who had treated them with undeserved grace.

But the Jewish leaders went to some of the important men in the town and to some respected women who were religious. They turned them against Paul and Barnabas and started making trouble for them. They even chased them out of this part of the country.

But Paul and Silas went straight to the home of Lydia, where they saw the Lord's followers and encouraged them. Then they left.




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