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 \v 22 Peter continued speaking: "Men of Israel, listen to me! When Jesus from Nazareth lived among you, God proved to you that he had sent him by making him able to do many amazing miracles that showed that he was from God. You yourselves know that this is true.
 \v 23 Even though you knew that, you handed this man Jesus over into the hands of his enemies. However, God had already planned for that, and he knew all about it. Then you urged men who do not have God's law to kill Jesus. They did that by nailing him to a cross.
-\v 24 He died, but God raised him up again, because it was not possible for him to remain dead. God caused Jesus to become alive again.
+\v 24 He died, but God raised him up again because it was not possible for him to remain dead. God caused Jesus to become alive again.
 
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-\v 43 All the people who were in Jerusalem respected and honored God very much, because the apostles were doing many kinds of miraculous things.
+\v 43 All the people who were in Jerusalem respected and honored God very much because the apostles were doing many kinds of miraculous things.
 \v 44 All of those who believed in Jesus believed the same things and regularly met together. They also kept sharing everything that they had with one another.
 \v 45 From time to time some of them sold some of their land and some of the other things that they owned, and they gave some of the money to others among them, according to what they needed.
 
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 \v 1 Meanwhile, there were some priests in the temple courtyard. There were also the officer in charge of the temple guard and some members of the Sadducee group. All of these men came to Peter and John while the two of them were speaking to the people.
 \v 2 These men were very angry because the two apostles were teaching the people about Jesus. What they were telling them was that God caused Jesus to become alive again after he had been killed.
-\v 3 So these men arrested Peter and John and put them in jail. The Jewish council had to wait until the next day to question Peter and John, because it was already evening.
+\v 3 So these men arrested Peter and John and put them in jail. The Jewish council had to wait until the next day to question Peter and John because it was already evening.
 \v 4 However, many people who had heard Peter speak put their faith in Jesus. The number of men who believed in Jesus increased to about five thousand.
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 \v 30 "One day forty years later, an angel appeared to Moses in a bush that was burning with a flame of fire there in the desert near Mount Sinai.
 
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-\v 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed, because the bush was not burning up. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say to him out of the burning bush,
+\v 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed because the bush was not burning up. As he went over to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say to him out of the burning bush,
 \v 32 'I am the God whom your ancestors worshiped. I am the God that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worship.' Moses was so afraid that he began to shake. He was afraid to look at the bush any longer.
 
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 \v 33 Then the Lord God said to him, 'Take off your sandals to show that you honor me. Because I am here, the place where you are standing is especially mine.
-\v 34 I have certainly seen how the people of Egypt are continually causing my people to suffer. I have heard my people when they groan because of it. So I have come down to rescue them from Egypt. Now get ready, because I am going to send you back to Egypt.'
+\v 34 I have certainly seen how the people of Egypt are continually causing my people to suffer. I have heard my people when they groan because of it. So I have come down to rescue them from Egypt. Now get ready because I am going to send you back to Egypt.'
 
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-\v 20 But Peter said to him, "May you and your money be destroyed, because you tried to get God's gift with money!
+\v 20 But Peter said to him, "May you and your money be destroyed because you tried to get God's gift with money!
 \v 21 You cannot work with us in what we are doing, because your heart is not right with God!
 \v 22 So stop thinking wickedly like that, and plead that the Lord, if he is willing, will forgive you for what you wickedly thought in your heart to do!
-\v 23 Turn away from your evil ways, because I perceive that you are extremely envious of us, and you are a slave of your continual desire to do evil!"
+\v 23 Turn away from your evil ways because I perceive that you are extremely envious of us, and you are a slave of your continual desire to do evil!"
 
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-\v 36-37 While they were traveling along the road, they came to a place where there was some water. Then the official said to Philip, "Look, there is some water! I would like you to baptize me, because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized."
+\v 36-37 While they were traveling along the road, they came to a place where there was some water. Then the official said to Philip, "Look, there is some water! I would like you to baptize me because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized."
 \v 38 So the official told the driver to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the official went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
 
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 \v 10 In Damascus there was a follower of Jesus named Ananias. The Lord Jesus made him see a vision and said to him, "Ananias!" He replied, "Lord, I am listening."
-\v 11 The Lord Jesus told him, "Go to Straight Street to the house that belongs to Judas. Ask someone there if you can talk to a man named Saul of Tarsus, because he is praying to me at this moment.
+\v 11 The Lord Jesus told him, "Go to Straight Street to the house that belongs to Judas. Ask someone there if you can talk to a man named Saul of Tarsus because he is praying to me at this moment.
 \v 12 Saul has seen a vision in which a man named Ananias entered the house where he was staying and put his hands on him in order that he might see again."
 
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-\v 26 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with other believers. However, almost all of them continued to be afraid of him, because they did not believe that he had become a believer.
+\v 26 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with other believers. However, almost all of them continued to be afraid of him because they did not believe that he had become a believer.
 \v 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He explained to the apostles how, while Saul was traveling along the road to Damascus, he had seen the Lord Jesus and how the Lord had spoken to him there. He also told them how Saul had preached boldly about Jesus to people in Damascus.
 
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 \v 32 While Peter was traveling throughout those regions, once he went to the coastal plain to visit the believers who lived in the town of Lydda.
 
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-\v 33 There he met a man whose name was Aeneas. Aeneas had not been able to get up from his bed for eight years because he was paralyzed.
+\v 33 There he met a man whose name was Aeneas. Aeneas had not been able to get up from his bed for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
 \v 34 Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and roll up your mat!" Right away Aeneas stood up.
 \v 35 Most of the people who lived in Lydda and on Sharon Plain saw Aeneas after the Lord had healed him, so they believed in the Lord Jesus.
 
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 \v 42 God commanded us to preach to the people and he told us to tell them that he appointed Jesus to be the judge of everyone one day, a day that is sure to come. He will judge all those who will still be living and all those who have died before that time.
-\v 43 All the prophets who wrote about him long ago told the people about him. They wrote that if anyone believed in him, God could forgive whatever sins they have done, because of what this man Jesus had done for them."
+\v 43 All the prophets who wrote about him long ago told the people about him. They wrote that if anyone believed in him, God could forgive whatever sins they have done because of what this man Jesus had done for them."
 
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 \v 45 The believers who had come with Peter from Joppa were amazed that God had generously given the Holy Spirit to the Gentile people as well.
 
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-\v 46 The believers knew God had done that, because they were hearing those people speaking languages that they had not learned and telling how great God is. Then Peter said
+\v 46 The believers knew God had done that because they were hearing those people speaking languages that they had not learned and telling how great God is. Then Peter said
 \v 47 to the other believers who were there, "God has given them the Holy Spirit, just like he gave him to us believers, so surely all of you would agree that we should baptize these people!"
 \v 48 Then Peter told them that they should be baptized as believers in Jesus Christ. So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized, they requested that Peter stay with them several days. So Peter and the other believers did that.
 
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-\v 18 The next morning the soldiers who had been guarding Peter became terribly upset, because they did not know what had happened to him.
+\v 18 The next morning the soldiers who had been guarding Peter became terribly upset because they did not know what had happened to him.
 \v 19 Then Herod heard about it. So he commanded soldiers to search for Peter, but they did not find him. Then he questioned the soldiers who had been guarding Peter and commanded them to be led away to be executed. Afterwards, Herod went from the province of Judea down to the city of Caesarea, where he stayed for some time.
 
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-\v 20 King Herod had been furiously angry with the people who lived in the cities of Tyre and Sidon. Then one day some men who represented them came together to the city of Caesarea in order to meet with Herod. They persuaded Blastus, who was one of Herod's important officials, to tell Herod that the people in their cities wanted to make peace with him. They wanted to be able to trade with the people that Herod ruled, because they needed to buy food from those regions.
+\v 20 King Herod had been furiously angry with the people who lived in the cities of Tyre and Sidon. Then one day some men who represented them came together to the city of Caesarea in order to meet with Herod. They persuaded Blastus, who was one of Herod's important officials, to tell Herod that the people in their cities wanted to make peace with him. They wanted to be able to trade with the people that Herod ruled because they needed to buy food from those regions.
 \v 21 On the day that Herod had planned to meet with them, he put on very expensive clothes that showed that he was king. Then he sat on his throne and formally addressed all the people who had gathered there.
 
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 \v 45 But the leaders of the Jews became extremely jealous when they saw the large crowds of people that were coming to hear Paul and Barnabas. So they began to contradict the things that Paul was saying and also to insult him.
 
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-\v 46 Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said to those Jewish leaders, "We had to speak the message from God about Jesus to you Jews first before we proclaim it to Gentiles, because God commanded us to do that. But you are rejecting God's message. By doing that, you have shown that you are not worthy of eternal life. Therefore, we are leaving you, and now we will go to the Gentiles to tell them the message from God.
+\v 46 Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said to those Jewish leaders, "We had to speak the message from God about Jesus to you Jews first before we proclaim it to Gentiles because God commanded us to do that. But you are rejecting God's message. By doing that, you have shown that you are not worthy of eternal life. Therefore, we are leaving you, and now we will go to the Gentiles to tell them the message from God.
 \v 47 We are doing this also because the Lord has commanded us to do it. He said in the scriptures,
 \q 'I have chosen you to reveal things about me to the Gentiles that will be like a light to them. I have chosen you to tell people everywhere in the world the message that I want to save them.'"
 
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 \v 9 God made no distinction between us and them, because he made them clean inside simply as a result of their believing in the Lord Jesus. That is exactly how he has forgiven us.
 
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-\v 10 Why do you want to force the disciples to obey our Jewish rituals and laws? Doing that is like putting a heavy burden on them, because it forces them to obey laws that even our ancestors broke and that we have never been able to keep!
+\v 10 Why do you want to force the disciples to obey our Jewish rituals and laws? Doing that is like putting a heavy burden on them because it forces them to obey laws that even our ancestors broke and that we have never been able to keep!
 \v 11 We know that God saves us from our sins because of what the Lord Jesus did for us. God saves us exactly like he saves them."
 
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 \v 30 The four men they selected went down from Jerusalem and came to Antioch. When all the believers there had assembled together, they gave the letter to them.
-\v 31 When the believers there read the letter, they rejoiced, because its message encouraged them.
+\v 31 When the believers there read the letter, they rejoiced because its message encouraged them.
 \v 32 Being prophets, Judas and Silas spoke a lot and encouraged the believers there and helped them to trust more strongly in the Lord Jesus.
 
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 \v 1 Paul and Silas went to the cities of Derbe and Lystra and visited the believers there. A believer whose name was Timothy lived in Lystra. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek.
 \v 2 The believers in Lystra and Iconium said good things about Timothy,
-\v 3 and Paul wanted to take Timothy with him when he went to other places, so he circumcised Timothy. He did that so that the Jews who lived in those places would accept Timothy, because they knew that his father was a Greek and had not circumcised him.
+\v 3 and Paul wanted to take Timothy with him when he went to other places, so he circumcised Timothy. He did that so that the Jews who lived in those places would accept Timothy because they knew that his father was a Greek and had not circumcised him.
 
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 \v 18 She continued to do this for many days. Finally, Paul became angry, so he turned toward the young woman and spoke to the evil spirit that was in her. He said, "In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of her!" Right away the evil spirit left her.
 
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-\v 19 And then her owners realized that she could no longer earn money for them because she could no longer predict what would happen to people, so they were angry. They grabbed Paul and Silas and took them to the public square where the rulers of the city were.
+\v 19 And then her owners realized that she could no longer earn money for them, because she could no longer predict what would happen to people, so they were angry. They grabbed Paul and Silas and took them to the public square where the rulers of the city were.
 \v 20 The owners of the young woman brought them to the city rulers and told them, "These men are Jews, and they are greatly troubling the people in our city.
 \v 21 They are teaching that we should follow customs that our laws do not allow us Romans to obey!"
 
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 \v 26 Suddenly there was a very strong earthquake that shook the jail. The earthquake caused all of the doors of the jail to open and all of the chains that fastened the prisoners to fall off.
 
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-\v 27 The jailer woke up and saw that the doors of the jail had been shaken by the earthquake and now they were open. He thought that the prisoners had left the jail, so he pulled out his sword to kill himself, because he knew that the city rulers would kill him if the prisoners became free.
+\v 27 The jailer woke up and saw that the doors of the jail had been shaken by the earthquake and now they were open. He thought that the prisoners had left the jail, so he pulled out his sword to kill himself because he knew that the city rulers would kill him if the prisoners became free.
 \v 28 Paul saw the jailer and shouted to him, "Do not kill yourself! We prisoners are all here!"
 
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-\v 9 One night, Paul had a vision in which the Lord Jesus said to him, "Do not be afraid of the people who are against you, but keep talking about me,
+\v 9 One night, Paul had a vision in which the Lord Jesus said to him, "Do not be afraid of the people who are against you, but keep talking about me
-\v 10 because I will help you and no one will be able to hurt you here. Keep telling them about me, because there are many people in this city who belong to me."
+\v 10 because I will help you and no one will be able to hurt you here. Keep telling them about me because there are many people in this city who belong to me."
 \v 11 So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half, teaching the people the message from God about Jesus.
 
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-\v 7 On the first day of the week, we would gather together and we would share a meal together with the other believers. Paul spoke to the believers until midnight, because he was planning to leave Troas the next day.
+\v 7 On the first day of the week, we would gather together and we would share a meal together with the other believers. Paul spoke to the believers until midnight because he was planning to leave Troas the next day.
 \v 8 Many oil lamps were burning in the upstairs room in which we had gathered.
 
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-\v 22 "And now I am going to Jerusalem, because the Holy Spirit has clearly shown me that I must go there, and I must obey him. I do not know what will happen to me there.
+\v 22 "And now I am going to Jerusalem because the Holy Spirit has clearly shown me that I must go there, and I must obey him. I do not know what will happen to me there.
 \v 23 But I do know that in each city I have visited, the Holy Spirit has told me that in Jerusalem people will put me in prison and will cause me to suffer.
 \v 24 But I do not care even if people kill me, if first I am able to finish the work that the Lord Jesus has told me to do. He called me to tell people the good message that God saves us by doing for us what we do not deserve.
 
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 \v 2 At Patara we left that ship, and someone told us that there was a ship that would be going to the region of Phoenicia. So we got on that ship, and it left.
 
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-\v 3 We traveled over the sea until we could see the Island of Cyprus. We passed to the south of the island and continued sailing until we arrived at the region of Phoenicia, in the province of Syria, at the city of Tyre. The ship was going to stay there several days, because its workers needed to unload the cargo.
+\v 3 We traveled over the sea until we could see the Island of Cyprus. We passed to the south of the island and continued sailing until we arrived at the region of Phoenicia, in the province of Syria, at the city of Tyre. The ship was going to stay there several days because its workers needed to unload the cargo.
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 \v 4 Someone told us where the believers in Tyre lived, so we went and stayed with them for seven days. Because God's Spirit revealed to them that people would cause Paul to suffer in Jerusalem, they told Paul that he should not go there.
 
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 \v 17 "Later, I returned to Jerusalem. One day I went to the temple courtyard and while I was praying there, I saw a vision.
-\v 18 The Lord spoke to me, saying, 'Do not stay here! Leave Jerusalem now, because the people here will not believe what you tell them about me!'
+\v 18 The Lord spoke to me, saying, 'Do not stay here! Leave Jerusalem now because the people here will not believe what you tell them about me!'
 
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 \v 19 But I said to him, 'Lord, they know that I went to many of our synagogues looking for people who believe in you. I was putting in jail those whom I found who believed in you, and I was even beating them.
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 \v 16 But the son of Paul's sister heard what they were planning to do, so he went into the fortress and told Paul.
-\v 17 When Paul heard that, he called one of the officers and said to him, "Please take this young man to the commander, because he needs to tell him something."
+\v 17 When Paul heard that, he called one of the officers and said to him, "Please take this young man to the commander because he needs to tell him something."
 
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-\v 18 So the officer took the young man to the commander. The officer said to the commander, "The prisoner Paul called me and said, 'Please take this young man to the commander, because he needs to tell him something.'"
+\v 18 So the officer took the young man to the commander. The officer said to the commander, "The prisoner Paul called me and said, 'Please take this young man to the commander because he needs to tell him something.'"
 \v 19 The commander took the young man by the hand, led him off by himself, and asked him, "What do you need to tell me?"
 
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 \v 25 Then the commander wrote a letter to send to the governor. This is what he wrote:
 \v 26 "I am Claudius Lysias writing to you. You, Felix, are our governor whom we honor, and I send you my greetings.
-\v 27 I have sent you this man Paul, because certain Jews seized him and were about to kill him. But I heard someone tell me that he is a Roman citizen, so I and my soldiers went and rescued him.
+\v 27 I have sent you this man Paul because certain Jews seized him and were about to kill him. But I heard someone tell me that he is a Roman citizen, so I and my soldiers went and rescued him.
 
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 \v 28 I wanted to know what those Jews were saying that he had done wrong, so I took him to their Jewish council.
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 \v 22 But now, I urge you, do not be afraid, because none of us will die. The storm will destroy the ship but not us.
 
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-\v 23 I know this, because last night God, the one to whom I belong and whom I serve, sent an angel who came and stood by me.
+\v 23 I know this because last night God, the one to whom I belong and whom I serve, sent an angel who came and stood by me.
 \v 24 The angel said to me, 'Paul, do not be afraid. You must go to Rome and stand before the emperor there so that he can judge you. I want you to know that God has granted to you that all those who are traveling by ship with you will also survive.'
 \v 25 So cheer up, my friends, because I believe that God will make this happen exactly as the angel told me.
 \v 26 However, the ship will crash on some island, and we will go ashore there."
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 \v 16 After we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to live in a house by himself. But there was always a soldier there to guard him.
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 \v 17 After Paul had been there three days, he sent a message to the Jewish leaders to come and talk with him. When they came to him, Paul said to them, "My dear brothers, although I have not opposed our people nor spoken against the customs of our ancestors, our leaders in Jerusalem seized me. But before they could kill me, a Roman commander rescued me and later sent me to the city of Caesarea for Roman authorities to put me on trial.
-\v 18 The Roman authorities questioned me and wanted to release me, because I had not done any bad thing for which I should be executed.
+\v 18 The Roman authorities questioned me and wanted to release me because I had not done any bad thing for which I should be executed.
 
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 \v 19 But when the Jewish leaders there spoke against the desire of the Romans to set me free, I had to request that the emperor judge me here in Rome. But my reason for doing that was not because I wanted to accuse our own people or their leaders about anything.
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 \v 21 Then the Jewish leaders said, "We have not received any letters from our fellow Jews in Judea about you. Also, none of our fellow Jews who have arrived here from Judea have said anything bad about you.
-\v 22 But we want to hear what you think about this group that you belong to, because we know that in many places people are speaking against it."
+\v 22 But we want to hear what you think about this group that you belong to because we know that in many places people are speaking against it."
 
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