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Acts 18 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Act 18:1

Act 18:1After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

Act 18:2

Act 18:2And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them;

Act 18:3

Act 18:3and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought; for by their trade they were tentmakers.

Act 18:4

Act 18:4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Act 18:5

Act 18:5But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Act 18:6

Act 18:6And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Act 18:7

Act 18:7And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

Act 18:8

Act 18:8And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

Act 18:9

Act 18:9And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:

Act 18:10

Act 18:10for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.

Act 18:11

Act 18:11And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Act 18:12

Act 18:12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

Act 18:13

Act 18:13saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Act 18:14

Act 18:14But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

Act 18:15

Act 18:15but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

Act 18:16

Act 18:16And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

Act 18:17

Act 18:17And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.

Act 18:18

Act 18:18And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn his head in Cenchreae; for he had a vow.

Act 18:19

Act 18:19And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

Act 18:20

Act 18:20And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;

Act 18:21

Act 18:21but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.

Act 18:22

Act 18:22And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to Antioch.

Third Missionary Journey

Act 18:23

Act 18:23And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

Act 18:24

Act 18:24Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures.

Act 18:25

Act 18:25This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John:

Act 18:26

Act 18:26and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.

Act 18:27

Act 18:27And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him: and when he was come, he helped them much that had believed through grace;

Act 18:28

Act 18:28for he powerfully confuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
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