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Acts - ch 13 v 41 - 52
- Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.
- And as they went out, they desired them, that on the next sabbath, they would speak unto them these words.
- And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews, and of the strangers who served God, followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
- But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to hear the word of God.
- And the Jews seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy, and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.
- Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.
- For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles; that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.
- And the Gentiles hearing it, were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting, believed.
- And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole country.
- But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas: and cast them out of their coasts.
- But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.
- And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.
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