SLAVE GIRL'S INTERVENTION:
FORTUNE-TELLING BRINGS PROFIT FOR MASTERS
[16]Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
[17]This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.”
[18]And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.
[19]But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
[20]And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city;
[21]and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.”
[22]Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
[23]And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.
ROMAN WOMEN'S INTERVENTION:
PHOEBE, PRISCILLA, MARY, JULIA,
& NEREUS' SISTER:
LABORERS IN PAUL'S MINISTRY,
PREACHING JESUS CHRIST!
Romans 16:1-4,6,13,15,25-27
[1]I commend to you PHOEBE our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,
[2]that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also. Greeting Roman Saints
[3]Greet PRISCILLA and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
[4]who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
[6]Greet MARY, who labored much for us.
[13]Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
[15]Greet Philologus and JULIA, NEREUS and his SISTER, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
[25]Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began
[26]but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith—
[27]to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
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