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Acts 16:13-26

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13On the Sabbath day we went outside the city by a river, where prayer was customarily made, and sitting down we started speaking to the assembled women.
14A certain woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, really listened, whose heart the Lord opened to give heed to the things spoken by Paul.
15When she and her household were baptized, she appealed saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.
16Now it happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain slave girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought considerable profit to her owners by divination.
17Following Paul and Silas this girl kept calling out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to us the way of salvation!”
18She kept this up for many days! So Paul, becoming increasingly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out that very hour.
19But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place to the rulers,
20and bringing them before the magistrates they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
21and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or do.”
22The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off of them and ordered a beating with rods.
23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them securely;
24who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25Well about midnight Paul and Silas were singing hymns to God in prayer; and the other prisoners were listening to them.
26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, enough to shake the foundations of the prison; immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.

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