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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
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.
They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as * other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul *, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If * it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason * would that I should bear with you:
And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be * with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.