Acts 16:1-8 ▼

1 Now Paul traveled to Derbe and also to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer [in Christ], however, his father was a Greek.

2 Timothy was well spoken of by the brothers and sisters who were in Lystra and Iconium.

3 Paul wanted Timothy to go with him [as a missionary]; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.

4 As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decrees decided on by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem, for the churches to observe.

5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they continually increased in number day after day.

6 Now they passed through the territory of Phrygia and Galatia, after being forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor];

7 and after they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;

8 so passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.