1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 1:1Phil 4:162 Thess 1:1Acts 20:42 Tim 4:10Acts 17:11Acts 17:13Acts 27:2Acts 16:13Acts 14:1
2And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 18:4Acts 9:20Acts 13:5Acts 14:1Acts 17:10Acts 17:17Isa 1:18Luke 4:16Acts 28:23Acts 8:35
3Opening 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 18:28Acts 9:22Luke 24:321 Cor 15:3-41 Thess 1:5-6Acts 3:18Gal 3:1Luke 24:46Acts 1:4Acts 13:26-39
4And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 17:12Acts 13:43Acts 14:42 Cor 8:5Acts 13:50Acts 15:22Acts 28:242 Cor 6:17-18Acts 14:1Acts 15:27
5But 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 17:13Gal 5:261 Thess 2:14-16Acts 14:2Acts 17:7Gal 5:21Rom 16:211 Cor 3:3Acts 13:45Acts 14:19
6And 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; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 24:5Acts 16:19-21Acts 28:22Luke 23:5Acts 21:28-311 Kgs 18:17-18Acts 18:12-13Acts 22:22-23Acts 6:12-13Jer 38:2-4
7Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 23:2Acts 16:21John 19:121 Pet 2:15Acts 25:8-11Dan 3:12Dan 6:13Ezra 4:12-15
8And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 11:48Matt 2:3
9And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 17:5
10And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 2:2Acts 17:13-14Acts 17:2Acts 20:4Acts 9:251 Sam 19:12-171 Sam 20:42Acts 14:6-7Acts 23:23-24Josh 2:15-16
11These 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 34:16Prov 2:1-5John 5:391 Thess 2:131 Pet 1:10-12Matt 13:232 Pet 1:19-21Prov 9:9Prov 1:52 Tim 3:15-17
12Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 5:14Acts 13:50Acts 14:11 Cor 1:26Acts 17:2-4Acts 13:46Jas 1:10Jas 1:21John 1:45-49John 7:17
13But 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 2:14-16Acts 14:2Acts 17:5Acts 21:27Acts 6:12Matt 23:13Prov 28:251 Kgs 21:25Luke 12:51Prov 15:18
14And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 17:10Matt 10:23Acts 16:1Acts 9:25Acts 9:301 Tim 1:3Acts 15:22Acts 19:22Acts 20:3Josh 2:16
15And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 3:1Acts 18:5Acts 18:12 Tim 4:10-11Titus 3:122 Tim 4:20-21Acts 15:3Acts 17:16Acts 17:21
16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 119:1582 Pet 2:7Exod 32:19-20Ps 119:136Jer 20:9Job 32:18-20Mark 3:5Mic 3:81 Kgs 19:101 Kgs 19:14
17Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 13:16Acts 14:1-4Acts 17:2-4Acts 9:20Luke 12:3Mark 16:15Matt 5:1-2Prov 1:20-22Prov 8:1-4Prov 8:34
18Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 1:20-211 Cor 3:181 Cor 4:10Acts 4:2Col 2:8Luke 11:531 Cor 15:3-4Acts 17:31-32Acts 26:23Acts 6:9
19And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mark 1:27Acts 17:22Acts 24:24Acts 25:221 John 2:7-8Acts 17:20Acts 26:1John 13:34Matt 10:18
20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 1:231 Cor 2:14Hos 8:121 Cor 1:181 Pet 4:4Acts 10:17Acts 2:12Heb 5:11John 6:60John 7:35-36
21(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.) Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Tim 2:16-17Col 4:5Eph 5:161 Tim 5:132 Thess 3:11-12
22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 25:19Acts 17:16Acts 19:35Jer 10:2-3Jer 50:38
23For 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gal 4:8-9John 4:22John 17:3John 17:251 Cor 1:212 Thess 2:4Acts 17:301 John 5:201 Tim 1:17Rom 1:28
24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 8:27Deut 10:14Acts 7:48Isa 66:12 Chr 6:18Matt 11:25Ps 115:162 Chr 2:6John 4:22-23Acts 14:15
25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 50:8-13Gen 2:7Isa 42:5Acts 17:28Job 33:4Rom 11:35Job 22:2Job 35:6-7Job 12:10Ps 104:27-30
26And 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; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 32:7-8Gen 3:20Mal 2:10Rom 5:12-191 Cor 15:221 Cor 15:47Job 12:23Job 14:5Ps 31:15Gen 9:19
27That 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 23:23-24Deut 4:7Acts 14:17Rom 1:20Acts 15:17Ps 19:1-6Rom 2:4Ps 139:1-131 Kgs 8:27
28For 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 12:10Col 1:17Heb 1:3Ps 36:9Luke 20:38John 11:25John 5:26Ps 66:9Heb 12:91 Sam 25:29
29Forasmuch 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 40:25Exod 20:4Isa 46:5-6Ps 115:4-8Hab 2:19-20Jer 10:4-10Rom 1:20-23Ps 106:20Exod 32:4Isa 40:12-20
30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 14:16Titus 2:11-12Luke 24:47Rom 3:25Eph 4:17-321 Pet 4:3Acts 26:17-201 Pet 1:14-15Acts 3:19Rom 2:4
31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Pet 3:7Matt 25:31-46Rom 2:162 Cor 5:10Ps 9:8Ps 98:91 Cor 4:51 Cor 15:3-8Rom 2:5Acts 10:39-42
32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 17:18Acts 26:81 Cor 4:102 Cor 6:2Acts 2:13Acts 24:25Acts 25:192 Chr 36:16Acts 17:31Acts 26:24-25
33So Paul departed from among them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
34Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 17:19Rom 11:5-6Acts 13:48Acts 17:4Acts 17:22Isa 55:10-11John 19:38-42John 7:48-52Matt 20:16Phil 4:22