SILAS

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• Acts 15:22

  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

• Acts 15:23

  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

• Acts 15:24

  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

• Acts 15:25

  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

• Acts 15:26

  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 15:27

  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

• Acts 15:30

  So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

• Acts 15:31

  When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

• Acts 15:32

  Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.

• Acts 15:33

  After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

• Acts 15:34
• Acts 15:40

  but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

• Acts 15:41

  He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

• Acts 16:19

  But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

• Acts 16:20

  When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

• Acts 16:21

  and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

• Acts 16:22

  The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

• Acts 16:23

  When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

• Acts 16:24

  who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

• Acts 16:25

  But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

• Acts 16:26

  Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

• Acts 16:27

  The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

• Acts 16:28

  But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”

• Acts 16:29

  He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

• Acts 16:30

  brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

• Acts 16:31

  They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

• Acts 16:32

  They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

• Acts 16:33

  He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

• Acts 16:34

  He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

• Acts 16:35

  But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”

• Acts 16:36

  The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace.”

• Acts 16:37

  But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

• Acts 16:38

  The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

• Acts 16:39

  and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

• Acts 16:40

  They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

• Acts 17:4

  Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

• Acts 17:5

  But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

• Acts 17:6

  When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

• Acts 17:7

  whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

• Acts 17:8

  The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

• Acts 17:9

  When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

• Acts 17:10

  The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

• Acts 17:14

  Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

• Acts 17:15

  But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

• Acts 18:5

  But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

• 2 Corinthians 1:19

  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

• 1 Thessalonians 1:1

  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:1

  Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

• 1 Peter 5:12

  Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.