Paul at Corinth

18:1 After this1 Paul2 departed from3 Athens4 and went to Corinth.5 18:2 There he6 found7 a Jew named Aquila,8 a native of Pontus,9 who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius10 had ordered all the Jews to depart from11 Rome.12 Paul approached13 them, 18:3 and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them14 (for they were tentmakers15 by trade).16 18:4 He addressed17 both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue18 every Sabbath, attempting to persuade19 them.

18:5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived20 from Macedonia,21 Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming22 the word, testifying23 to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.24 18:6 When they opposed him25 and reviled him,26 he protested by shaking out his clothes27 and said to them, “Your blood28 be on your own heads! I am guiltless!29 From now on I will go to the Gentiles!” 18:7 Then Paul30 left31 the synagogue32 and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God,33 whose house was next door to the synagogue. 18:8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue,34 believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it35 believed and were baptized. 18:9 The Lord said to Paul by a vision36 in the night,37 “Do not be afraid,38 but speak and do not be silent, 18:10 because I am with you, and no one will assault39 you to harm40 you, because I have many people in this city.” 18:11 So he stayed there41 a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.42