One day when we were going to the place of prayer, a female slave met us. She had a spirit that told fortunes. She earned a lot of money for her owners by doing this.
Love for money causes all kinds of evil. By trying to get rich, some people have wandered away from the faith and been hurt by many sad things that have happened to them.
She kept this up for many days. Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and spoke to the spirit that was in her. “In the name of Jesus Christ,” he said, “I command you to come out of her!” At that very moment the spirit left the woman.
On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate and walked down to the river because we expected to find a place of prayer there. We sat down and began to speak to the women who’d gathered together.
These teachers will be so greedy that they’ll make up stories to take advantage of you. But they’ve been under a sentence of death for a long time. Their destruction has not been sleeping.
There was a man named Demetrius who made silver models of the temple of the goddess Artemis. He brought in a lot of business for the other skilled workers there.