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            <div class="label">17</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Thessalonica and Berea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">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; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of C&#230;sar, saying that there is another king, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thither</span></span><span class="content"> went into the synagogue of the Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Paul's Address</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.17.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Ye</span></span><span class="content"> men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> man whom he hath ordained; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">whereof</span></span><span class="content"> he hath given assurance unto all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">, in that he hath raised him from the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.17.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">matter</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Paul departed from among them. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> grieve him in the desert!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Yea, they turned back and tempted God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">And limited the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They remembered not his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Nor</span></span><span class="content"> the day when he delivered them from the enemy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">And his wonders in the field of Zoan:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">And had turned their rivers into blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">And their floods, that they could not drink.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">And frogs, which destroyed them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">And their labour unto the locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">He destroyed their vines with hail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">And their sycomore trees with frost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">He gave up their cattle also to the hail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">By sending evil angels </span><span class="add"><span class="content">among them</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">He made a way to his anger; He spared not their soul from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">But gave their life over to the pestilence;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="content">The chief of </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> strength in the tabernacles of Ham:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">But made his own people to go forth like sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="content">And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">And he led them on safely, so that they feared not:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="content">But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even to</span></span><span class="content"> this mountain, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> his right hand had purchased.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">He cast out the heathen also before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">And divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">And kept not his testimonies:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">For they provoked him to anger with their high places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">When God heard </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content">, he was wroth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">And greatly abhorred Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">The tent </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> he placed among men;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">And delivered his strength into captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">And his glory into the enemy's hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">He gave his people over also unto the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">And was wroth with his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">The fire consumed their young men;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">And their maidens were not given to marriage.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">Their priests fell by the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">And their widows made no lamentation.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">He put them to a perpetual reproach.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">And chose not the tribe of Ephraim:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">But chose the tribe of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">The mount Zion which he loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">And he built his sanctuary like high </span><span class="add"><span class="content">palaces</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">Like the earth which he hath established for ever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">He chose David also his servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">And took him from the sheepfolds:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">From following the ewes great with young he brought him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">To feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="content">And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.</span></span></div>
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