Acts 16:40

World English Bible (2000)

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

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  • Acts 16:14 : 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
  • 2 Cor 1:3-7 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
  • 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
  • 2 Cor 4:16-18 : 16 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18 while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • 1 Thess 3:2-3 : 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith; 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
  • Acts 4:23 : 23 Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
  • Acts 12:12-17 : 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer. 14 When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate. 15 They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel." 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. 17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
  • Acts 16:2 : 2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

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    34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

    35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

    36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."

    37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"

    38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

    39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

  • Acts 16:12-16
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    12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

    13 On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.

    14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

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

    16 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

  • Acts 15:33
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    33 After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

  • Acts 16:23-27
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    23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

    24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

    25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

    26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.

    27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

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

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

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    10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

  • Acts 16:29-32
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    29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

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

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

    32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

  • Acts 5:19
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    19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

  • Acts 16:19
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    19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

  • Acts 14:20-21
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    20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

    21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

  • Acts 12:16-17
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    16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

    17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, "Tell these things to James, and to the brothers." Then he departed, and went to another place.

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    6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

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    22 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

    23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"

  • Acts 14:27-28
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    27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

    28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

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    40 but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

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    6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

  • Acts 14:24-25
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    24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.

    25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

  • Acts 15:31
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    31 When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

  • Acts 17:14
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    14 Then 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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    1 After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

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    8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

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    12 The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.

  • Acts 4:23
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    23 Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

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    23 So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

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    10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.