Acts 16:1-8 ▼

1 THEN he arrived at the city of Der’be and Lys’tra: there was there a disciple whose name was Timo’the-us, the son of a Jewess convert, but whose father was a Syr’ian.

2 And all the disciples of Lys’tra and I-co’nium gave good testimony concerning him.

3 Paul wanted to take this man with him, so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region; for they all knew that his father was a Syr’i-an.

4 And as they went through the cities, they preached and taught the people to obey the decrees which the apostles and elders had written at Jerusalem.

5 And so the churches were established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

6 Then they traveled through the countries of Phryg’i-a and Ga-la’tia, and the Holy Spirit forbade them to speak the word of God in Asia Minor.

7 And when they came to the country of Mys’ia, they wanted to go from thence to Bi-thyn’i-a: but the spirit of Jesus permitted them not.

8 And when they had left Mys’ia, they came to the country of Tro’as.