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Acts 14:18
Acts 14:18 is verse 18 of Acts chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
King James Version
And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
World English Bible
Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
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Acts 14:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
18 Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
19 Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
20 But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. And the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 11:6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Genesis 19:9“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
Exodus 32:21“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
Exodus 32:22“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
Exodus 32:23They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’
Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
John 6:15Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.