Acts 16:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.

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  • Mark 5:7 : 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you by God, do not torment me.
  • Dan 3:26 : 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the midst of the fire.
  • Dan 6:20 : 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice to Daniel: and the king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
  • Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.
  • Dan 3:28 : 28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God.
  • Luke 4:34 : 34 saying, Let us alone; what do we have to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are; the Holy One of God.
  • Luke 4:41 : 41 And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, You are Christ the Son of God. And he, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father except through me.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
  • Luke 20:21 : 21 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, neither do you show favoritism, but teach the way of God truly:
  • Acts 16:30-31 : 30 And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 So they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.
  • Acts 18:26 : 26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
  • Acts 19:13 : 13 Then certain of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call on those who had evil spirits in the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We command you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way which he consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, his flesh, 21 And having a high priest over the house of God, 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
  • Gen 14:18-22 : 18 And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all." 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the goods for yourself." 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
  • Ps 57:2 : 2 I will cry to God Most High, to God who performs all things for me.
  • Ps 78:35 : 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  • Mark 12:14 : 14 When they had come, they said to him, 'Teacher, we know that you are true, and do not care about anyone; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
  • Luke 1:77 : 77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins,
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • Dan 4:2 : 2 I thought it good to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.
  • Dan 5:18 : 18 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, majesty, glory, and honor.
  • Dan 5:21 : 21 Then he was driven from the sons of men; his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He chooses.
  • Dan 6:16 : 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.
  • Mic 6:6 : 6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
  • Matt 7:13-14 : 13 Enter by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and few are those who find it.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?
  • Matt 22:16 : 16 And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, nor do you care about anyone, for you do not regard the person of men.
  • Mark 1:24 : 24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of God most high? I beg you, torment me not.

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    13On the Sabbath, we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.

    14And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened, so she heeded the things spoken by Paul.

    15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay. And she persuaded us.

    16And it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

  • Acts 16:28-31
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    28But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.

    29Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

    30And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

    31So they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.

  • Acts 14:14-15
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    14But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out

    15And saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men with similar passions as you and preach to you that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things in them,

  • Acts 14:10-12
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    10Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet. And he leaped up and walked.

    11And when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men.

    12And they called Barnabas, Zeus; and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

  • Acts 16:18-20
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    18And she did this for many days. But Paul, being greatly troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour.

    19When her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.

    20And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city,

  • Acts 16:9-10
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    9And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, Come over to Macedonia and help us.

    10After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

  • Acts 19:25-26
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    25Whom he called together with the workmen of similar occupation, and said, Sirs, you know that by this trade we have our wealth.

    26Moreover, you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands;

  • Acts 17:18-19
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    18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

    19And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine is that you speak of?

  • Acts 16:38-39
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    38And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.

    39Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, and asked them to depart from the city.

  • Acts 13:26
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    26Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

  • Acts 15:11
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    11But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19And when he had greeted them, he declared in detail what things God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.

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    14Who shall tell you words, whereby you and all your house shall be saved.

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    9For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

  • Acts 13:7
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    7Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

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    28And when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

  • Acts 27:23-24
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    23For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

    24Saying, Do not fear, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and indeed, God has granted you all those who sail with you.

  • Acts 13:15-16
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    15And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak on.

    16Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

  • Acts 16:35
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    35When it was day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, Let those men go.

  • Acts 28:28
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    28Therefore let it be known to you that the salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.

  • Acts 28:15
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    15And from there, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

  • Acts 17:22-23
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    22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ Hill and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.

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    17And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also living in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

  • Acts 14:18
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    18And with these sayings, they barely kept the people from sacrificing to them.

  • Acts 13:47
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    47For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set you to be a light to the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

  • Acts 18:13
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    13saying, 'This man persuades people to worship God contrary to the law.'

  • Acts 17:34
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    34However, some men joined him and believed: among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

  • Acts 17:3
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    3Opening and explaining that Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is Christ.

  • Acts 23:9
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    9And there arose a great outcry, and the scribes who were of the Pharisees' group arose and contended, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

  • Acts 12:22
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    22And the people shouted, 'It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!'

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    37For you have brought here these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

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    36For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.