Acts 20:2
When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
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- Zech 9:13 : 13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; And I will stir up your sons, Zion, Against your sons, Greece, And will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
- Acts 2:40 : 40 With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
- 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 15:41 : 41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
- Acts 16:12 : 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.
- Acts 17:1 : 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
- Acts 17:10 : 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- Acts 20:6-7 : 6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days. 7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
- Acts 20:11 : 11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
- Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
- 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
- 1 Thess 2:11 : 11 As you know how we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
- 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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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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21 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."
22 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
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27 When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
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3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
4 These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
5 But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
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1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
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16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
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13 But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.
15 Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.
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18 When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
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8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."
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 Gospel to them.
11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
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.
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5 But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.
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22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
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19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
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19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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21 When they had preached the Gospel to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
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1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
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11 When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
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22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
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36 When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.
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1 Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
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4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
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15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
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6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
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21 Then I came to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
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10 This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.