EPHESUS

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• Acts 18:18

  Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

• Acts 18:19

  He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

• Acts 18:20

  When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

• Acts 18:21

  but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

• Acts 18:22

  When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

• Acts 18:23

  Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

• Acts 18:24

  Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

• Acts 18:25

  This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

• Acts 18:26

  He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

• Acts 18:27

  When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

• Acts 18:28

  for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

• Acts 19:13

  But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

• Acts 19:14

  There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

• Acts 19:15

  The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

• Acts 19:16

  The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

• Acts 20:16

  For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

• Acts 20:17

  From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

• Acts 20:18

  When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

• Acts 20:19

  serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

• Acts 20:20

  how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

• Acts 20:21

  testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

• Acts 20:22

  Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

• Acts 20:23

  except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

• Acts 20:24

  But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

• Acts 20:25

  “Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

• Acts 20:26

  Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,

• Acts 20:27

  for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

• Acts 20:28

  Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

• Acts 20:29

  For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

• Acts 20:30

  Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

• Acts 20:31

  Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

• Acts 20:32

  Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• Acts 20:33

  I coveted no one’s silver, or gold, or clothing.

• Acts 20:34

  You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

• Acts 20:35

  In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

• Acts 20:36

  When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

• Acts 20:37

  They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

• Acts 20:38

  sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

• 1 Timothy 1:3

  As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

• 2 Timothy 1:18

  (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

• 2 Timothy 4:12

  But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

• Revelation 1:11

  saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

• Revelation 2:1

  “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

• Revelation 2:2

  “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

• Revelation 2:3

  You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

• Revelation 2:4

  But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

• Revelation 2:5

  Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

• Revelation 2:6

  But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

• Revelation 2:7

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.