I wrote to you in great distress, with a heavy heart, and with my eyes full of tears. I wasn’t trying to upset you. I just wanted you to know how deeply I love you.
where he stayed for three months. He was just about to sail for Syria, but he found out that some Jews were plotting against him. So he decided to go back through Macedonia instead.
I’ve told you these things many times before, and I’m telling you them again with tears in my eyes. Many people live like enemies of the cross of Christ.
Now do I sound like somebody who wants people to think well of me? Or do I sound like somebody who wants God to think well of me? If I were still trying to please people, I wouldn’t be serving Christ.
From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. To you who have received a faith as precious as ours and who have been made right with our God and Savior Jesus Christ.
All the other believers are already talking about the kind of welcome you gave us, about how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God,
Therefore, “they stand in front of the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple. The one who sits on the throne will be with them to protect them.
But other Jews were jealous. They rounded up some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. The Jews rushed to Jason’s house to look for Paul and Silas because they wanted to bring them out to the crowd.
The seven days of cleansing were almost over when some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They grabbed him and stirred up the whole crowd,