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Acts 19:31
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And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
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(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
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But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
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And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.
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Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
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And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
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And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
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