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Acts 16:19

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When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.

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The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here,

in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;

Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.

But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

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

Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.

There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.

I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

“You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: “Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions’ den?” The king answered, “The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”

but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord.

They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar

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

The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.

since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition.




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