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LYSTRA

One of two cities of Lycaonia, to which Paul and Barnabas fled from persecutions in Iconium ACT 14:6-23; 2TI 3:11

Passages on this topic · 23

  • Acts 14:6

    they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

  • Acts 14:7

    There they preached the Good News.

  • Acts 14:8

    At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

  • Acts 14:9

    He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

  • Acts 14:10

    said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.

  • Acts 14:11

    When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”

  • Acts 14:12

    They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.

  • Acts 14:13

    The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

  • Acts 14:14

    But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

  • Acts 14:15

    “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

  • Acts 14:16

    who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

  • Acts 14:17

    Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

  • Acts 14:18

    Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

  • Acts 14:19

    But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • Acts 14:20

    But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

  • Acts 14:21

    When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

  • Acts 14:22

    confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

  • Acts 14:23

    When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

  • Acts 16:1

    He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

  • Acts 16:2

    The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

  • Acts 16:3

    Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  • Acts 16:4

    As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Timothy 3:11

    persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).