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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the
synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
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And after the reading of the law and the prophets
the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying,
Ye
men
and
brethren, if ye have any word of
exhortation for the people, say on.
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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with
his
hand said, Men
of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers,
and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm
brought he them out of it.
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And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the
wilderness.
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their
land to them by lot.
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And after that he gave
unto them
judges about the space of four hundred and
fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them
Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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And when he
had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony,
and said, I have found David the
son
of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my
will.
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Of this man’s seed hath God according to
his
promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
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When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of
Israel.
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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not
he.
But,
behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of
his
feet I am not worthy to loose.
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Men
and
brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the
word of this salvation sent.
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For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew
him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled
them
in condemning
him.
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And though they found no cause of death
in him,
yet desired they
Pilate that he should be slain.
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And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took
him
down from the tree, and laid
him
in a sepulchre.
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But God raised him from the dead:
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And
he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his
witnesses unto the people.
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And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which
was made unto the fathers,
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God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath
raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee.
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And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead,
now
no more to return to
corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
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Wherefore he saith
also in another
psalm,
Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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For David, after
he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers,
and saw corruption:
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But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
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Be it known unto you therefore, men
and
brethren, that through this man is preached unto
you the forgiveness of sins:
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And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which
ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which
is spoken of in the prophets;
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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in
your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
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And when
the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached
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