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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, &#8220;Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews of Corinth made a united attack on Paul and brought him to the place of judgment. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;This man,&#8221; they charged, &#8220;is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to them, &#8220;If you Jews were making a complaint about some misdemeanor or serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to listen to you. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law&#8212;settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So he drove them off. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the crowd there turned on Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the proconsul; and Gallio showed no concern whatever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, Silas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Silvanus</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Silas</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Timothy,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.1.1"><span class="content">To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.1.1"><span class="content">Grace and peace to you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving for the Thessalonians&#8217; Faith</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For we know, brothers and sisters</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 2:1, 9, 14, 17; 3:7; 4:1, 10, 13; 5:1, 4, 12, 14, 25, 27.</span></span></span><span class="content"> loved by God, that he has chosen you, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Lord&#8217;s message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia&#8212;your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead&#8212;Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Ministry in Thessalonica</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You know, brothers and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please people but God, who tests our hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed&#8212;God is our witness. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We were not looking for praise from people, not from you or anyone else, even though as apostles of Christ we could have asserted our authority. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Instead, we were like young children</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">were gentle</span></span></span><span class="content"> among you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.2.7"><span class="content">Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TH.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God&#8217;s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TH.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TH.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them fully</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Longing to See the Thessalonians</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TH.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TH.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For we wanted to come to you&#8212;certainly I, Paul, did, again and again&#8212;but Satan blocked our way. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TH.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TH.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Indeed, you are our glory and joy.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God&#8217;s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Timothy&#8217;s Encouraging Report</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.</span></span></div>
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