But the disciples formed a circle around him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day, he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

But the Jewish leaders became jealous, and they took some contemptible characters who used to hang out in the public square, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason's home and searched it for Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the people.

In the morning, the Jewish leaders formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink anything before they had killed Paul.

More than 40 men formed this conspiracy.

My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until the Messiah is formed in you.

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

The former proclaim the Messiah because they are selfishly ambitious and insincere, thinking that they will stir up trouble for me during my imprisonment.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve,

God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,

Indeed, because it was weak and ineffective, the former commandment has been annulled,

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

But they deliberately ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth was formed by God's word out of water and with water,