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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 18 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Acts 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/17.htm" title="Acts 17">◄</a> Acts 18 <a href="../acts/19.htm" title="Acts 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/acts/18.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Paul at Corinth</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade). <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.</p> <p class="title">Paul Before the Proconsul Gallio</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.</p> <p class="title">Paul Returns to Antioch in Syria</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.</p> <p class="title">Apollos Begins His Ministry</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and with great enthusiasm he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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