Acts 16:6-31

⁶And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;

⁷And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;

⁸And going past Mysia, they came down to Troas.

⁹And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.

¹⁰And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

¹¹So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;

¹²And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.

¹³And on the Sabbath we went outside the town, by the river, where we had an idea that there would be a place of prayer; and, being seated, we had talk with the women who had come together.

¹⁴And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

¹⁵And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.

¹⁶And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power.

¹⁷She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.

¹⁸And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

¹⁹But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

²⁰And when they had taken them before the authorities, they said, These men, who are Jews, are greatly troubling our town;

²¹Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

²²And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.

²³And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely:

²⁴And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.

²⁵But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;

²⁶And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off.

²⁷And the keeper, coming out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, took his sword and was about to put himself to death, fearing that the prisoners had got away.

²⁸But Paul said in a loud voice, Do yourself no damage, for we are all here.

²⁹And he sent for lights and came rushing in and, shaking with fear, went down on his face before Paul and Silas,

³⁰And took them out and said, Sirs, what have I to do to get salvation?

³¹And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.