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Acts 16:1-6

1Now Paul also came to 1Derbe and to 2Lystra. And a disciple was there, named 3Timothy, the son of a 4Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek, 2and he was well spoken of by 5the brothers and sisters who were in 6Lystra and 7Iconium. 3Paul wanted this man to leave with him; and he 8took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering 9the ordinances for them to follow which had been determined by 10the apostles and 11elders in Jerusalem. 5So 12the churches were being strengthened 13in the faith, and were 14increasing in number daily.

6They passed through the 1516Phrygian and 17Galatian region, after being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in 1819Asia;

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 16:1 Acts 14:6 ↩
  2. 2. Acts 16:1 Acts 14:6 ↩
  3. 3. Acts 16:1 Acts 17:14f; 18:5; 19:22; 20:4; Rom 16:21; 1 Cor 4:17; 16:10; 2 Cor 1:1, 19; Phil 1:1; 2:19; Col 1:1; 1 Thess 1:1; 3:2, 6; 2 Thess 1:1; 1 Tim 1:2, 18; 6:20; 2 Tim 1:2; Philem 1; Heb 13:23 ↩
  4. 4. Acts 16:1 2 Tim 1:5; 3:15 ↩
  5. 5. Acts 16:2 Acts 16:40 ↩
  6. 6. Acts 16:2 Acts 14:6 ↩
  7. 7. Acts 16:2 Acts 13:51 ↩
  8. 8. Acts 16:3 Gal 2:3 ↩
  9. 9. Acts 16:4 Acts 15:28f ↩
  10. 10. Acts 16:4 Acts 15:2 ↩
  11. 11. Acts 16:4 Acts 11:30 ↩
  12. 12. Acts 16:5 Acts 9:31 ↩
  13. 13. Acts 16:5 Or in faith ↩
  14. 14. Acts 16:5 Acts 2:47 ↩
  15. 15. Acts 16:6 Or Phrygia and the Galatian region ↩
  16. 16. Acts 16:6 Acts 2:10; 18:23 ↩
  17. 17. Acts 16:6 Acts 18:23; 1 Cor 16:1; Gal 1:2; 3:1; 2 Tim 4:10; 1 Pet 1:1 ↩
  18. 18. Acts 16:6 I.e., west coast province of Asia Minor ↩
  19. 19. Acts 16:6 Acts 2:9 ↩

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