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Acts 24:17

Contemporary English Version 1995

After being away for several years, I returned here to bring gifts for the poor people of my nation and to offer sacrifices.

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They only asked us to remember the poor, and this was something I had always been eager to do.

What you are doing is much more than a service that supplies God's people with what they need. It is something that will make many others thank God.

You know our Lord Jesus Christ treated us with undeserved grace by giving up all his riches, so you could become rich.

Pray that God will protect me from the unbelievers in Judea, and that his people in Jerusalem will be pleased with what I am doing.

Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, because he did not want to spend too much time in Asia. He was in a hurry and wanted to be in Jerusalem in time for Pentecost.

The next day Paul took the four men with him and got himself ready at the same time they did. Then he went into the temple and told when the final ceremony would take place and when an offering would be made for each of them.

Be on your guard! Remember how day and night for three years I kept warning you with tears in my eyes.

After this, Felix often sent for Paul and talked with him, because he hoped that Paul would offer him a bribe.

Titus was the one who got you started doing this good thing, so we begged him to help you finish what you had begun.




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