Bible Reading for July 29 and 30
World English Bible
July
29
2
Chronicles 19-21
2Ch
19:1 Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to
Jerusalem.
2Ch
19:2 Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said
to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who
hate Yahweh? for this thing wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
2Ch
19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you
have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart
to seek God.
2Ch
19:4 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the
people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought
them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2Ch
19:5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities
of Judah, city by city,
2Ch
19:6 and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't
judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is
with you in the judgment.
2Ch
19:7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and
do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of
persons, nor taking of bribes.
2Ch
19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and
the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses
of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They
returned to Jerusalem.
2Ch
19:9 He commanded them, saying, Thus you shall do in the fear of
Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2Ch
19:10 Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers
who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and
commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they
not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your
brothers: this do, and you shall not be guilty.
2Ch
19:11 Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of
Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of
Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers
before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the good.
2Ch
20:1 It happened after this, that the children of Moab, and the
children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against
Jehoshaphat to battle.
2Ch
20:2 Then there came some who told Jehoshaphat, saying, There comes
a great multitude against you from beyond the sea from Syria; and
behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar (the same is En Gedi).
2Ch
20:3 Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek to Yahweh; and he
proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
2Ch
20:4 Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help
of Yahweh: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek
Yahweh.
2Ch
20:5 Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in
the house of Yahweh, before the new court;
2Ch
20:6 and he said, Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in
heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations?
and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to
withstand you.
2Ch
20:7 Did not you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land
before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your
friend forever?
2Ch
20:8 They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for
your name, saying,
2Ch
20:9 If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or
famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your
name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you
will hear and save.
2Ch
20:10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir,
whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land
of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
2Ch
20:11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your
possession, which you have given us to inherit.
2Ch
20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against
this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do:
but our eyes are on you.
2Ch
20:13 All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their
wives, and their children.
2Ch
20:14 Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the
son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph,
came the Spirit of Yahweh in the midst of the assembly;
2Ch
20:15 and he said, Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, Don't
you be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude;
for the battle is not yours, but God's.
2Ch
20:16 Tomorrow go down against them: behold, they come up by the
ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the end of the valley,
before the wilderness of Jeruel.
2Ch
20:17 You shall not need to fight in this battle:
set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with
you, O Judah and Jerusalem; don't be afraid, nor be dismayed:
tomorrow go out against them: for Yahweh is with you.
2Ch
20:18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and
all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh,
worshipping Yahweh.
2Ch
20:19 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the
children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of
Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
2Ch
20:20 They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the
wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and
said, Hear me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in
Yahweh your God, so you shall be established; believe his prophets,
so you shall prosper.
2Ch
20:21 When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those
who should sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they
went out before the army, and say, Give thanks to Yahweh; for his
loving kindness endures forever.
2Ch
20:22 When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers
against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come
against Judah; and they were struck.
2Ch
20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the
inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when
they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to
destroy another.
2Ch
20:24 When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they
looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to
the earth, and there were none who escaped.
2Ch
20:25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of
them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies,
and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more
than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the
spoil, it was so much.
2Ch
20:26 On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of
Beracah; for there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that
place was called The valley of Beracah to this day.
2Ch
20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with
joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
2Ch
20:28 They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments and harps and
trumpets to the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
20:29 The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when
they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
2Ch
20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him
rest all around.
2Ch
20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty-five years old
when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2Ch
20:32 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside
from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.
2Ch
20:33 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet
had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.
2Ch
20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,
behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani,
which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
2Ch
20:35 After this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with
Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly:
2Ch
20:36 and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to
Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion Geber.
2Ch
20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied
against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with
Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. The ships were broken, so
that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2Ch
21:1 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his
place.
2Ch
21:2 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel,
and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these
were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
2Ch
21:3 Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and
of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom
gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
2Ch
21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father,
and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the
sword, and various also of the princes of Israel.
2Ch
21:5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2Ch
21:6 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house
of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife: and he did that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
2Ch
21:7 However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of
the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give
a lamp to him and to his children always.
2Ch
21:8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and
made a king over themselves.
2Ch
21:9 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his
chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites
who surrounded him, along with the captains of the chariots.
2Ch
21:10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day:
then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand, because
he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
2Ch
21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and
made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led
Judah astray.
2Ch
21:12 There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you have not
walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa
king of Judah,
2Ch
21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have
made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute,
like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of
your father's house, who were better than yourself:
2Ch
21:14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people,
and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;
2Ch
21:15 and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels,
until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
2Ch
21:16 Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians:
2Ch
21:17 and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried
away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his
sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him,
save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
2Ch
21:18 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
2Ch
21:19 It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, that
his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore
diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his
fathers.
2Ch
21:20 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he
reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being
desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the
tombs of the kings.
July
30
2
Chronicles 22-24
2Ch
22:1 The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king
in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the
camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of
Judah reigned.
2Ch
22:2 Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the
daughter of Omri.
2Ch
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother
was his counselor to do wickedly.
2Ch
22:4 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the
house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his
father, to his destruction.
2Ch
22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the
son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at
Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2Ch
22:6 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they
had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.
Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the
son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2Ch
22:7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to
Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu
the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of
Ahab.
2Ch
22:8 It happened, when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of
Ahab, that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the
brothers of Ahaziah, ministering to Ahaziah, and killed them.
2Ch
22:9 He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in
Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they
buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought
Yahweh with all his heart. The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold
the kingdom.
2Ch
22:10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was
dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed of the house of
Judah.
2Ch
22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son
of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were
slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath,
the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for
she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she
didn't kill him.
2Ch
22:12 He was with them hid in the house of God six years: and
Athaliah reigned over the land.
2Ch
23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the
captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son
of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of
Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
2Ch
23:2 They went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all
the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses
of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2Ch
23:3 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of
God. He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Yahweh
has spoken concerning the sons of David.
2Ch
23:4 This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who
come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be
porters of the thresholds;
2Ch
23:5 and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part
at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the
courts of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
23:6 But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests,
and those who minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they
are holy: but all the people shall keep the instruction of Yahweh.
2Ch
23:7 The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons
in his hand; and whoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and
be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
2Ch
23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada
the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were
to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the
Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift.
2Ch
23:9 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the
spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which
were in the house of God.
2Ch
23:10 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand,
from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along
by the altar and the house, around the king.
2Ch
23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown on
him, and gave him
the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed
him; and they said, Long
live the king.
2Ch
23:12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
2Ch
23:13 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at
the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all
the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also
played on
instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah
tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
2Ch
23:14 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who
were set over the army, and said to them, Have her forth between the
ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword: for
the priest said, Don't kill her in the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
23:15 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the
horse gate to the king's house: and they killed her there.
2Ch
23:16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people,
and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.
2Ch
23:17 All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down,
and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the
priest of Baal before the altars.
2Ch
23:18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under
the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in
the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is
written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing,
according to the order of David.
2Ch
23:19 He set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that
no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
2Ch
23:20 He took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the
governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought
down the king from the house of Yahweh: and they came through the
upper gate to the king's house, and set the king on the throne of the
kingdom.
2Ch
23:21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was
quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword.
2Ch
24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he
reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah,
of Beersheba.
2Ch
24:2 Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the
days of Jehoiada the priest.
2Ch
24:3 Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of
sons and daughters.
2Ch
24:4 It happened after this, that Joash was minded to restore the
house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:5 He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to
them, Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money
to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that you
hasten the matter. However the Levites didn't hurry.
2Ch
24:6 The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why
haven't you required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out
of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the
assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
2Ch
24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the
house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of
Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.
2Ch
24:8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it
outside at the gate of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:9 They made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring
in for Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in
the wilderness.
2Ch
24:10 All the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in,
and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2Ch
24:11 It was so, that whenever the chest was brought to the king's
officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was
much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and
emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again.
Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2Ch
24:12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the
service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters
to restore the house of Yahweh, and also such as worked iron and
brass to repair the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward
in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and
strengthened it.
2Ch
24:14 When they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money
before the king and Jehoiada, of which were made vessels for the
house of Yahweh, even vessels with which to minister and to offer,
and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt
offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of
Jehoiada.
2Ch
24:15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; one
hundred thirty years old was he when he died.
2Ch
24:16 They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because
he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
2Ch
24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and
made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
2Ch
24:18 They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and
Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
2Ch
24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh;
and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
2Ch
24:20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the
priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says
God, Why do you disobey the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can't
prosper? because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.
2Ch
24:21 They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the
commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
2Ch
24:22 Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which
Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he
died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it.
2Ch
24:23 It happened at the end of the year, that the army of the
Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem,
and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people,
and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.
2Ch
24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men;
and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they
had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed
judgment on Joash.
2Ch
24:25 When they were departed for him (for they left him very
sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the
sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died;
and they buried him in the city of David, but they didn't bury him in
the tombs of the kings.
2Ch
24:26 These are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of
Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the
Moabitess.
2Ch
24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid
on him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are
written in the commentary of the book of the kings. Amaziah his son
reigned in his place.
Jul. 29
Acts 17
Act
17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Act
17:2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath
days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Act
17:3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and
rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I
proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Act
17:4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the
devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Act
17:5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the
marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar.
Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the
people.
Act
17:6 When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain
brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have
turned the world upside down have come here also,
Act
17:7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees
of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"
Act
17:8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when
they heard these things.
Act
17:9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let
them go.
Act
17:10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to
Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Act
17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that
they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the
Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Act
17:12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek
women, and not a few men.
Act
17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word
of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there
likewise, agitating the multitudes.
Act
17:14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to
the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Act
17:15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens.
Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to
him very quickly, they departed.
Act
17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Act
17:17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout
persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Act
17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were
conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to
say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign
deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Act
17:19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus,
saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken
by you?
Act
17:20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to
know therefore what these things mean."
Act
17:21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent
their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new
thing.
Act
17:22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You
men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Act
17:23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your
worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN
GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to
you.
Act
17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being
Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,
Act
17:25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed
anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all
things.
Act
17:26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the
surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the
boundaries of their dwellings,
Act
17:27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach
out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Act
17:28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of
your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
Act
17:29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that
the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art
and design of man.
Act
17:30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he
commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Act
17:31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the
world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he
has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the
dead."
Act
17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning
this."
Act
17:33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Act
17:34 But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also
was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others
with them.
Jul.
30, 31
Acts 18
Act
18:1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth.
Act
18:2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race,
who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because
Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to
them,
Act
18:3 and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and
worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
Act
18:4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews
and Greeks.
Act
18:5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was
compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the
Christ.
Act
18:6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing
and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean.
From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
Act
18:7 He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man
named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the
synagogue.
Act
18:8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with
all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and
were baptized.
Act
18:9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be
afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
Act
18:10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for
I have many people in this city."
Act
18:11 He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God
among them.
Act
18:12 But 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 saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary
to the law."
Act
18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the
Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime,
you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
Act
18:15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own
law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these
matters."
Act
18:16 He drove them from the judgment seat.
Act
18:17 Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the
synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care
about any of these things.
Act
18:18 Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave
of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with
Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a
vow.
Act
18:19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself
entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
Act
18:20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he
declined;
Act
18:21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all
means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to
you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
Act
18:22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the
assembly, and went down to Antioch.
Act
18:23 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 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an
eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
Act
18:25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things
concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
Act
18:26 He began to speak 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.
Act
18:27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers
encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he
had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
Act
18:28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the
Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
