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Acts 14:6
Paul and Barnabas learned about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.
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Acts 16:1
He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.
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Acts 11:26
and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
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Acts 20:9-12
A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him, and said,“ Do not be distressed, for he is still alive!”Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.
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2 Corinthians 1 9-2 Corinthians 1 10
Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,
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Acts 20:1
After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.
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Acts 14:28
So they spent considerable time with the disciples.
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Acts 16:40
When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed.
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2 Corinthians 6 9
as unknown, and yet well- known; as dying and yet– see!– we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;
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Acts 12:17
He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and then related how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said,“ Tell James and the brothers these things,” and then he left and went to another place.
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Revelation 11:7-12
When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.But after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized those who were watching them.Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them:“ Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.
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Acts 14:22
They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“ We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”