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Acts 18:6

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: "Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I shall go to the Gentiles."

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If no one welcomes you, or listens to what you say, as you leave that house or that town, shake off its dust from your feet.

"Miserable wretches!" they exclaimed, "he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times."

And that, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the Kingdom.

The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests.

And all the people answered: "His blood be on our heads and on our children's!"

Yes, and many will come in from East and West and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven;

And they heaped many other insults on him.

If people do not welcome you, as you leave that town, shake even the dust off your feet, as a protest against them."

They, however, shook the dust off their feet in protest,

Time after time, in every Synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.

On the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.

Understand, then, that this Salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen."

Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?

Never ordain any one hastily, and take no part in the wrong-doing of others. Keep your life pure.

He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth,

If you are reviled for bearing the name of Christ, count yourselves blessed; because the divine Glory and the Spirit of God are resting upon you.

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.




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