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Be it known unto you, therefore, men
and brethren, that through this one is preached unto you the remission of sins;
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and in him all that believe are justified from all the things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Beware, therefore, lest what is spoken of in the prophets come upon you:
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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish, for I do a work in your days, a work which ye would in no wise believe, if one should declare it unto you.
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And when they were gone out of the synagogue of the Jews, the Gentiles besought that these words might be spoken to them the next sabbath.
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Now when the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to remain in the grace of God.
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And the next sabbath day almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.
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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and spoke against that which Paul said, contradicting and blaspheming.
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Then Paul and Barnabas speaking with freedom, said, It was necessary indeed that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
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For so has the Lord commanded us,
saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou should be for saving health unto the ends of the earth.
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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.