Acts 18 (NET)

Acts 18:1¹After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:22 Tim 4:202 Cor 1:1Acts 19:12 Cor 1:23Acts 17:15Acts 17:32-33

Acts 18:2²There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:192 Tim 4:19Rom 16:3-4Acts 11:28Acts 18:26Acts 18:18Acts 2:91 Pet 1:1

Acts 18:3³and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:121 Thess 2:92 Cor 11:72 Cor 11:92 Thess 3:8-92 Cor 12:131 Cor 9:6-12Acts 20:34-35

Acts 18:4⁴He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:11Acts 17:17Acts 28:232 Chr 32:11Acts 13:14-14:1Acts 17:1-3Acts 17:11Acts 18:13Acts 19:26Acts 19:8

Acts 18:5⁵Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:14Acts 18:28Acts 17:3Acts 20:21Acts 9:22Ezek 3:14Acts 17:14-16Acts 2:36Jer 20:9Jer 6:11

Acts 18:6⁶When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:42 Sam 1:16Ezek 33:8-9Ezek 18:13Acts 13:51Neh 5:131 Pet 4:41 Pet 4:141 Thess 2:14-16Acts 13:45-47

Acts 18:7⁷Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 16:14Col 4:11Acts 10:2Acts 10:22Acts 13:42Acts 17:4

Acts 18:8⁸Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:13-17Mark 16:15-16Rom 10:14-17Acts 11:14Acts 8:12Acts 10:2Acts 13:15Acts 16:14-15Acts 16:34Acts 18:17

Acts 18:9⁹The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 23:11Eph 6:19-20Ezek 2:6-8Acts 27:23-252 Cor 12:1-3Acts 16:9Jer 1:17Mic 3:81 Thess 2:2Ezek 3:9-11

Acts 18:10¹⁰because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 12:9Exod 4:12Isa 41:10Matt 28:20Rom 8:31John 10:162 Tim 4:22Isa 54:17Jer 15:20-21Isa 43:2

Acts 18:11¹¹So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 14:3Acts 19:10Acts 20:31

Acts 18:12¹²Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:50Acts 13:7Acts 18:271 Cor 16:152 Cor 1:12 Cor 11:102 Cor 9:2Acts 14:19Acts 14:2Acts 17:13

Acts 18:13¹³saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 25:8Acts 21:28Acts 24:5-6Acts 6:13Acts 18:15Acts 18:4

Acts 18:14¹⁴But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:14-152 Cor 11:12 Cor 11:4Acts 13:18Acts 21:39-22:2Acts 23:27-29Acts 25:11Acts 25:18-20Acts 25:26Acts 26:1-2

Acts 18:15¹⁵but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 23:29Acts 25:191 Tim 6:41 Tim 1:42 Tim 2:23Acts 25:11Acts 26:3Matt 27:24Titus 3:9Acts 24:6-8

Acts 18:16¹⁶Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 76:10Rev 12:16Rom 13:3-4

Acts 18:17¹⁷So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:11 Cor 1:23Acts 17:32Amos 6:6

Acts 18:18¹⁸Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 21:24Num 6:181 Cor 9:20Acts 18:2Num 6:5-9Rom 16:1Acts 15:23Gal 1:21Num 6:2Acts 15:41

Acts 18:19¹⁹When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 1:32 Tim 1:18Eph 1:11 Cor 15:32Acts 18:24Acts 18:4Acts 19:1Acts 20:161 Cor 16:82 Tim 4:12

Acts 18:20²⁰When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:12Acts 20:16Acts 21:13-14Mark 1:37-38

Acts 18:21²¹but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:19Jas 4:15Acts 20:16Heb 6:3Rom 1:10Rom 15:32Deut 16:11 Cor 16:71 Pet 3:172 Cor 13:11

Acts 18:22²²and when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 8:40Acts 10:1Acts 10:24Acts 11:11Acts 11:19-27Acts 13:1Acts 14:26Acts 15:23Acts 15:30Acts 15:35

Acts 18:23²³After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 14:22Acts 16:6Acts 15:32Acts 15:411 Cor 16:11 Thess 5:14Gal 4:141 Thess 3:21 Thess 4:18Acts 16:40

Acts 18:24²⁴Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:5-61 Cor 4:6Titus 3:131 Cor 1:121 Cor 16:12Col 3:161 Cor 2:1-22 Cor 10:10Acts 27:6Acts 6:9

Acts 18:25²⁵He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 19:3Hos 14:9Rom 12:11Acts 19:23Acts 19:9Acts 9:2Mark 12:141 Sam 12:232 Tim 2:4Acts 13:10

Acts 18:26²⁶He began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 12:21Acts 14:3Acts 18:25Eph 6:19-20Heb 6:11 Cor 3:182 Pet 3:18Acts 18:2-3Acts 28:23Acts 8:31

Acts 18:27²⁷When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:13-14Jas 1:16-181 Cor 15:101 Cor 16:31 Cor 3:10-141 Pet 1:2-32 Cor 1:242 Cor 3:1-23 John 1:8-10Acts 18:18

Acts 18:28²⁸for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:3-4Acts 18:5Acts 26:22-23Acts 9:22Luke 24:44Acts 17:3Heb 7:1-10John 5:39Luke 24:27Acts 18:25