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Acts 16:21

and they are proclaiming customs which are not lawful for us to receive or to do, since we are Romans.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

In Context

20And bringing them to the magistrates they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city;

22And the crowd rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore their clothes and ordered men to beat them with rods.

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Cross References

Acts 16:12and from there to Philippi, which is chief of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were spending some days in that very city.

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:17-25

The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he… Read the whole commentary →

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