Acts 16:1-5

Paul Selects Timothy

1 Then he went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but his father was a Greek.

2 The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.

3 Paul wanted Timothy^[a] to go with him, so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.

4 As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for them to observe.

5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and were increased in number daily.