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Acts 18 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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In Corinth

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After these things he departed Athens and went to Corinth.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:2 - And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, and his wife Priscilla, who recently came from Italy because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:3 - and because he was of the same trade, he was staying with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:4 - And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.
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But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus is the [fn]Christ.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:6 - But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:7 - Then he left there and went to the house of a man named [fn]Titius Justus, a God-fearer, whose house was next to the synagogue.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:8 - And Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:9 - And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:10 - for I am with you, and no man will lay a hand on you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:11 - And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
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But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:13 - saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:14 - But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:15 - but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I am not willing to be a judge of these matters.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:16 - And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:17 - And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos

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And Paul, having remained many days longer, took leave of the brothers and put out to sea for Syria, and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. In Cenchreae [fn]he had his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:19 - And they arrived at Ephesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:20 - When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:21 - but taking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.
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And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:23 - And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, [fn]an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:25 - This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:26 - and [fn]he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:27 - And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly [fn]helped those who had believed through grace,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:28 - for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus is the [fn]Christ.
LSB Footnotes
Messiah
One early ms Titus; two other early mss omit the name
Lit having his hair cut
Or a learned man
Lit this man
Or helped greatly through grace those who had believed
Messiah
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