Acts 16:1-16

¹And he came to Derbe and Lystra; and lo! a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, but whose father was a Greek;

²who was well a spoken of by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

³Him Paul wished to go forth with him, and took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

⁴And as they journeyed through the cities, they delivered to them for their observance the decrees which had been ordained by the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem.

⁵The churches therefore were established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

⁶And having gone through Phrygia and the Galatian country, on being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia,

⁷they came to Mysia, and were attempting to go into Bithynia; but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them.

⁸And passing by Mysia, they came to Troas.

⁹And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood a man of Macedonia beseeching him and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.

¹⁰And when he had seen the vision, we immediately endeavored to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to publish the glad tidings to them.

¹¹And setting sail from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

¹²and thence to Philippi, which is a chief city of the province of Macedonia, a colony. And we remained in the city some days.

¹³And on the sabbath-day we went forth out of the gate to a river-side, where was wont to be a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had assembled.

¹⁴And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, was listening; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things which were spoken by Paul.

¹⁵And when she had been baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be a believer in the Lord, come into my house, and abide. And she constrained us.

¹⁶And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain bond-maid having a soothsaying spirit met us, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.