1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

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Philippians 4:16, 1 Thessalonians 1:1, Philippians 4:16, 1 Thessalonians 1:1, 2 Thessalonians 1:1

2Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

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Acts 9:20, Acts 9:20, Acts 14:1, Acts 18:4, Acts 13:5

3explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah."

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Acts 18:28, Acts 18:28, Luke 24:32, Acts 9:22, Luke 24:32

4Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

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Acts 17:12, Acts 17:12, Acts 13:43, Acts 14:4, Acts 13:43

5But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, 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.

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Galatians 5:26, Acts 17:13, Galatians 5:26, Acts 17:13, Galatians 5:21

6When they did not 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,

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Acts 24:5, Acts 24:5, Acts 16:19, Acts 16:21, Acts 16:19

7whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"

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Luke 23:2, Luke 23:2, Acts 16:21, John 19:12, Acts 16:21

8The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

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John 11:48, Matthew 2:3, John 11:48, Matthew 2:3

9When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

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Acts 17:5, Acts 17:5

10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

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1 Thessalonians 2:2, Acts 17:13, Acts 17:14, Acts 17:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:2

11Now 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.

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Isaiah 34:16, Isaiah 34:16, Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 2:5, Proverbs 2:1

12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

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Ephesians 5:14, Ephesians 5:14, Acts 13:50, Acts 13:50, Acts 14:1

13But 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.

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1 Thessalonians 2:14, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:14, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, Matthew 23:13

14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

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Acts 17:10, Acts 17:10, Matthew 10:23, Matthew 10:23, Acts 9:30

15But 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.

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1 Thessalonians 3:1, Acts 18:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:1, Acts 18:5, Acts 18:1

16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

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Psalms 119:158, Psalms 119:158, Psalms 119:136, 2 Peter 2:7, Psalms 119:136

17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

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Mark 16:15, Acts 13:16, Proverbs 8:34, Acts 17:2, Acts 17:4

18Some 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.

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1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:21, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:21, Colossians 2:8

19They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

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Mark 1:27, Mark 1:27, Acts 17:22, Acts 17:22, Acts 25:22

20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

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1 Peter 4:4, 1 Corinthians 1:23, Hosea 8:12, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Peter 4:4

21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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2 Timothy 2:16, 2 Timothy 2:17, 2 Timothy 2:16, 2 Timothy 2:17, Ephesians 5:16

22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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Acts 25:19, Acts 25:19, Acts 19:35, Acts 17:16, Acts 19:35

23For 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.

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Galatians 4:8, Galatians 4:9, John 4:22, Galatians 4:8, Galatians 4:9

24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

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1 Kings 8:27, 1 Kings 8:27, Deuteronomy 10:14, Deuteronomy 10:14, Acts 7:48

25neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

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Psalms 50:8, Psalms 50:13, Psalms 50:8, Psalms 50:13, Genesis 2:7

26He made from one every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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Deuteronomy 32:7, Deuteronomy 32:8, Deuteronomy 32:7, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 3:20

27that they should seek God, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

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Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 23:24, Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 23:24, Deuteronomy 4:7

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.'

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Job 12:10, Job 12:10, Colossians 1:17, Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3

29Being 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.

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Isaiah 40:25, Isaiah 40:25, Exodus 20:4, Exodus 20:4, Psalms 115:4

30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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Acts 14:16, Acts 14:16, Titus 2:11, Titus 2:12, Titus 2:11

31because 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."

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Matthew 25:31, Matthew 25:46, Matthew 25:31, Matthew 25:46, Romans 2:16

32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

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Acts 17:18, Acts 26:8, Acts 17:18, Acts 26:8, Acts 2:13

33Thus Paul went out from among them.

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34But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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Acts 17:19, Acts 17:19, Romans 11:5, Romans 11:6, Romans 11:5