Acts 18:4-11
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4 He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.(A)
5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message[a] and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.(B) 6 But when they resisted and blasphemed,(C) he shook his robe[b](D) and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!(E) I am innocent.[c] From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”(F) 7 So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household.(G) Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
9 Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”(H) 11 And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
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1 Corinthians 4:15
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15 For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father(A) in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
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1 Corinthians 9:1
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Paul’s Example as an Apostle
9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
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1 Corinthians 15:1
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Resurrection Essential to the Gospel
15 Now brothers, I want to clarify[a] for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand(A) on it.
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- 1 Corinthians 15:1 Or I make known
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