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And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe--as many as were appointed to life age-during;

and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.

long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.

though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.'

men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--

And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news--with many others also--the word of the Lord;

and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord--how they are.'

and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,

and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;

and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us.

and this she was doing for many days, but Paul having been grieved, and having turned, said to the spirit, `I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come forth from her;' and it came forth the same hour.

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ--Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king--Jesus.'

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

neither by the hands of men is He served--needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, --though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.