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Act 18:18 — And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn [his] head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Syria		Act 15:23,41; Act 21:3; Gal 1:21
Priscilla		Act 18:2.
having		Act 21:24; Num 6:5-9,18; 1Cr 9:20
Cenchrea		Cenchrea, now Kenkri, was the port of Corinth, on the east side of the isthmus, and about nine miles from the city. Rom 16:1

Correlating Passages

Syria

	Act 15:23	And they wrote [letters] by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
	Act 15:41	And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
	Act 21:3	Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
	Gal 1:21	Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

Priscilla

Act 18:2

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

having

	Act 21:24	Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave [their] heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but [that] thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
	Num 6:5	All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth [himself] unto the LORD, he shall be holy, [and] shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
	Num 6:6	All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
	Num 6:7	He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God [is] upon his head.
	Num 6:8	All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the LORD.
	Num 6:9	And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
	Num 6:18	And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put [it] in the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
	1Cr 9:20	And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

Cenchrea

Rom 16:1

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

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Scott, Thomas. "Acts 18:18," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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