Acts 16:10-17 ▼

10 As soon as he had seen the vision, we immediately looked for a way to go to Macedonia, because we were convinced that God had called us to tell the people there the good news.

11 Sailing from Troas, we went straight to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

12 and from there to Philippi, an important city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We were in this city for several days.

13 On the Sabbath day, we went out the city gate and walked along the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and began talking to the women who had gathered there.

14 A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple goods, was listening to us. She was a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to listen carefully to what was being said by Paul.

15 When she and her family were baptized, she urged us, |If you are convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home.| And she continued to insist that we do so.

16 Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.

17 She would follow Paul and us and shout, |These men are servants of the Most High God and are proclaiming to you a way of salvation!|