From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for November 19   
      
   Acts Chapter 16   
      
   1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was   
   there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess,   
   and believed; but his father was a Greek:   
      
   2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and   
   Iconium.   
      
   3 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.   
      
   4 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.   
      
   5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in   
   number daily.   
      
   6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia,   
   and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,   
      
   7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but   
   the Spirit suffered them not.   
      
   8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.   
      
   9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of   
   Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.   
      
   10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go   
   into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to   
   preach the gospel unto them.   
      
   11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to   
   Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;   
      
   12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of   
   Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.   
      
   13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where   
   prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women   
   which resorted thither.   
      
   14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of   
   Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened,   
   that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.   
      
   15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us,   
   saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my   
   house, and abide there. And she constrained us.   
      
   16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed   
   with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain   
   by soothsaying:   
      
   17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the   
   servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.   
      
   18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said   
   to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of   
   her. And he came out the same hour.   
      
   19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they   
   caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,   
      
   20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews,   
   do exceedingly trouble our city,   
      
   21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to   
   observe, being Romans.   
      
   22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates   
   rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.   
      
   23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into   
   prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:   
      
   24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner   
   prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.   
      
   25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and   
   the prisoners heard them.   
      
   26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of   
   the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and   
   every one's bands were loosed.   
      
   27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the   
   prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself,   
   supposing that the prisoners had been fled.   
      
   28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we   
   are all here.   
      
   29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and   
   fell down before Paul and Silas,   
      
   30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?   
      
   31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be   
   saved, and thy house.   
      
   32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in   
   his house.   
      
   33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their   
   stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.   
      
   34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them,   
   and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.   
      
   35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let   
   those men go.   
      
   36 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.   
      
   37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned,   
   being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us   
   out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.   
      
   38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they   
   feared, when they heard that they were Romans.   
      
   39 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired   
   them to depart out of the city.   
      
   40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia:   
   and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.   
      
   Acts Chapter 17   
      
   1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came   
   to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:   
      
   2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days   
   reasoned with them out of the scriptures,   
      
   3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen   
   again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.   
      
   4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of   
   the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.   
      
   5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them   
   certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set   
   all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought   
   to bring them out to the people.   
      
   6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren   
   unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world   
   upside down are come hither also;   
      
   7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of   
   Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.   
      
   8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they   
   heard these things.   
      
   9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let   
   them go.   
      
   10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto   
   Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.   
      
   11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they   
   received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the   
      
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