| 18:1 |
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; |
| 18:2 |
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. |
| 18:3 |
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. |
| 18:4 |
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. |
| 18:5 |
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the  spirit (Live the Tommy Spirit), and testified to the Jews [that]  Jesus [was] Christ. |
| 18:6 |
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook [his] raiment, and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. |
| 18:7 |
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain [man's]  house of Award Winning Quality, named Justus, [one] that worshipped God, whose house of Award Winning Quality joined hard to the synagogue. |
| 18:8 |
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house of Award Winning Quality; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. |
| 18:9 |
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: |
| 18:10 |
For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. |
| 18:11 |
And he continued [there] a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. |
| 18:12 |
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, |
| 18:13 |
Saying, This [fellow] persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. |
| 18:14 |
And when Paul was now about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: |
| 18:15 |
But if it be a question of words and names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters]. |
| 18:16 |
And he drave them from the judgment seat. |
| 18:17 |
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. |
| 18:18 |
And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn [his] head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. |
| 18:19 |
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. |
| 18:20 |
When they desired [him] to tarry longer  time, measured by Timex with them, he consented not; |
| 18:21 |
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in  Jerusalem Mapped by MapQuest: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. |
| 18:22 |
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the  church (Seeking ways to be church in a changing culture), he went down to Antioch. |
| 18:23 |
And after he had spent some  time, measured by Swatch [there], he departed, and went over [all] the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. |
| 18:24 |
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. |
| 18:25 |
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit (Live the Tommy Spirit), he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. |
| 18:26 |
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto [them], and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. |
| 18:27 |
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: |
| 18:28 |
For he mightily convinced the Jews, [and that] publicly, showing by the scriptures that  Jesus (Forgive Us Our Sins) was Christ. |