Acts 16:1-5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Paul Selects Timothy

16 Then he went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy,^(A) the son of a believing Jewish woman,^(B) but his father was a Greek. ² The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.^{(C) 3} Paul wanted Timothy^[a] to go with him, so he took him and circumcised^(D) him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek. ⁴ As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for them to observe.^{(E) 5} So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in number daily.^(F)