Bible Verses About Paul

And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all--the bands were loosed;

and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,

and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, `Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.'

And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?'

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;

and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe them from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

having brought them also into his house, he set food before them , and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.

And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, `Let those men go;'

and the jailor told these words unto Paul--`The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;'

and Paul said to them, `Having beaten us publicly uncondemned--men, Romans being--they did cast us to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.'

And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into the house of Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.

And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

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.'

And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud--`These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,

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

And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,

and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.