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and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive nor to observe, being Romans."
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And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates rent off their clothes and commanded that they be beaten.
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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
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He, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
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And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them.
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And 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 bands were loosed.
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And the keeper of the prison, awakening out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled.
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But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Do thyself no harm, for we are all here!"
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Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas,
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and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
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And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."