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Acts 16:19

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But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

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So they approached the king and said to him, “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.”

“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to send men chosen from among them, Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.

who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell down trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,

since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?




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