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-\v 3 One day at about three o'clock in the afternoon Cornelius saw a vision. He clearly saw an angel whom God had sent. He saw the angel coming into his room and saying to him, "Cornelius!"
+\v 3 One day, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, Cornelius saw a vision. He clearly saw an angel whom God had sent. He saw the angel coming into his room and saying to him, "Cornelius!"
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 \v 4 Cornelius stared at the angel and became terrified. Then he asked fearfully, "Sir, what do you want?" 
 \p The angel who was sent from God answered him, "You have pleased God because you have been praying regularly to him and you often give money to help poor people. Those things have been like a memorial offering to God.
-\v 5 So now command some men to go to Joppa and tell them to bring back a man named Simon whose other name is Peter.
+\v 5 So now command some men to go to Joppa and tell them to bring back a man named Simon, whose other name is Peter.
 \v 6 He is staying with a man, also named Simon, who makes leather. His house is near the ocean."
 
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 \v 7 When the angel who spoke to Cornelius had gone, he summoned two of his household servants and a soldier who served him, one who also worshiped God.
-\v 8 He explained to them everything that the angel had said. Then he told them to go to city of Joppa to ask Peter to come to Caesarea.
+\v 8 He explained to them everything that the angel had said. Then he told them to go to the city of Joppa to ask Peter to come to Caesarea.
 
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-\v 9 About noon the next day those three men were traveling along the road and were coming near Joppa. As they were approaching Joppa, Peter went up on the flat housetop to pray.
+\v 9 About noon the next day, those three men were traveling along the road and were coming near Joppa. As they were approaching Joppa, Peter went up on the flat housetop to pray.
 \v 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat. While some people were preparing the food, Peter saw a vision.
-\v 11 He saw the sky open and something like a large sheet being lowered to the ground, with its four corners raised up.
+\v 11 He saw the sky open and something like a large sheet being lowered to the ground with its four corners raised up.
 \v 12 Inside the sheet were all kinds of four-legged animals and reptiles and birds of the air that the law of Moses said we must not eat.
 
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 \v 14 But Peter replied, "I cannot do this, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is unacceptable to you or that would make me unacceptable to you!"
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 \v 15 Then Peter heard God talk to him a second time. He said, "I am God, so if I have made something acceptable to eat, do not say that it is not acceptable to eat!"
-\v 16 This happened three times. Immediately after that, the sheet with the animals and birds was then pulled back into the sky.
+\v 16 This happened three times. Immediately after that, the sheet with the animals and birds was pulled back into the sky.
 
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 \v 19 While Peter was still trying to understand what the vision meant, God's Spirit said to him, "Listen! Three men are here who want to see you.
-\v 20 So get up and go downstairs and go with them! Do not think that you should not go with them, because I have sent them here!"
+\v 20 So get up, go downstairs, and go with them! Do not think that you should not go with them, because I have sent them here!"
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 \v 21 So Peter went down to the men and said to them, "Greetings! I am the man you are looking for. Why have you come?"
 
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 \v 27 While he was talking to Cornelius, Peter and the others entered the house and saw that many people had gathered together there.
-\v 28 Then Peter said to them, "You all know that all of us Jews think we are disobeying our laws if we associate with those who are Gentiles or if we even visit in their homes. However, God has shown me in a vision that I must not say any more, that anyone is so defiled and unclean that God would not accept him.
+\v 28 Then Peter said to them, "You all know that all of us Jews think we are disobeying our laws if we associate with those who are Gentiles or if we even visit them in their homes. However, God has shown me in a vision that I must not say anymore that anyone is so defiled and unclean that God would not accept him.
 \v 29 So when you sent some men to ask me to come here, I came right away without objection. So, please tell me, why have you asked me to come here?"
 
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-\v 30 Cornelius replied, "About this time three days ago I was praying to God in my house, as I regularly do at three o'clock in the afternoon. Suddenly a man whose clothes shone brightly stood in front of me
+\v 30 Cornelius replied, "About this time three days ago, I was praying to God in my house, as I regularly do at three o'clock in the afternoon. Suddenly a man whose clothes shone brightly stood in front of me
 \v 31 and said, 'Cornelius, God has heard your prayer. He has also noticed that you have often given money to help poor people, and he is pleased with that.
-\v 32 So now, send messengers to go to the city of Joppa in order to ask Simon whose other name is Peter to come here. He is staying near the ocean in a house that belongs to another man named Simon, who makes leather.'
+\v 32 So now, send messengers to go to the city of Joppa in order to ask Simon, whose other name is Peter, to come here. He is staying near the ocean in a house that belongs to another man named Simon, who makes leather.'
 \v 33 So I immediately sent some men who asked you to come here, and I certainly thank you for coming. 
 \p Now we all are gathered here, knowing that God is with us, in order to hear all the things that the Lord has commanded you to say. So please speak to us."
 
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 \v 35 Instead, from every people he accepts everyone who honors him and who does what pleases him.
 
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-\v 36 You know the message that God sent to Israel. He proclaimed to us the good news that brings peace, because of Jesus Christ, and he is Lord over all!
+\v 36 You know the message that God sent to Israel. He proclaimed to us the good news that brings peace because of Jesus Christ, and he is Lord over all!
 \v 37 You know what he did throughout the land of Judea, beginning in Galilee. He began to do those things after John had been proclaiming to people that they should turn away from their sinful behavior before he baptized them.
 \v 38 You know that God gave his Holy Spirit to Jesus, the man from the town of Nazareth, and gave him the power to do miracles. You also know how Jesus went to many places, always doing good deeds and healing people. He was healing all the people whom the devil was causing to suffer. Jesus was able to do those things because God was always helping him."
 
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 \v 39 "We all saw the things Jesus did in Jerusalem and around every part of the country of Israel where he lived. His enemies killed him by nailing him to a wooden cross.
-\v 40 Then God raised him back to life on the third day after he died, and he made sure that many people would see him alive after he was brought back to life. People were sure it was him who had died, and now they saw with their own eyes, and were fully convinced, that he was alive again.
+\v 40 Then God raised him back to life on the third day after he died, and he made sure that many people would see him alive after he was brought back to life. People were sure it was him who had died, and now they saw with their own eyes and were fully convinced that he was alive again.
 \v 41 At that time God did not let everyone see him, only those he selected to spend time with him and to eat a meal together in those first days just after God raised him back to life.
 
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 \v 42 God commanded us to preach to the people and he told us to tell them that he appointed Jesus to be the judge of everyone one day, a day that is sure to come. He will judge all those who will still be living and all those who have died before that time.
-\v 43 All the prophets who wrote about him long ago told the people about him. They wrote that if anyone believed in him, God could forgive whatever sins they have done, because of what this man, Jesus, had done for them."
+\v 43 All the prophets who wrote about him long ago told the people about him. They wrote that if anyone believed in him, God could forgive whatever sins they have done, because of what this man Jesus had done for them."
 
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 \v 44 While Peter was still speaking those words, suddenly the Holy Spirit came down on all those people from other nations who were listening to the message.
-\v 45 The believers who had come with Peter from Joppa were amazed that God had generously given the Holy Spirit to the Gentile people, as well.
+\v 45 The believers who had come with Peter from Joppa were amazed that God had generously given the Holy Spirit to the Gentile people as well.
 
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-\v 46 The believers knew that God had done that because they were hearing those people speaking languages that they had not learned and telling how great God is. Then Peter said
-\v 47 to the other believers who were there, "God has given them the Holy Spirit just like he gave him to us believers, so surely all of you would agree that we should baptize these people!"
+\v 46 The believers knew God had done that, because they were hearing those people speaking languages that they had not learned and telling how great God is. Then Peter said
+\v 47 to the other believers who were there, "God has given them the Holy Spirit, just like he gave him to us believers, so surely all of you would agree that we should baptize these people!"
 \v 48 Then Peter told them that they should be baptized as believers in Jesus Christ. So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized, they requested that Peter stay with them several days. So Peter and the other believers did that.
 
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 \v 7 Then I heard God commanding me, 'Peter, get up, kill and eat them!'
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-\v 8 But I replied, 'Lord, you surely do not really want me to do that, because I have never eaten anything that our laws say that we must not eat!'
+\v 8 But I replied, 'Lord, you surely do not really want me to do that, because I have never eaten anything that our laws say we must not eat!'
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-\v 9 God spoke from heaven to me a second time, 'I am God, so if I have made something acceptable to eat, do not say it is unacceptable.'
+\v 9 God spoke from heaven to me a second time: 'I am God, so if I have made something acceptable to eat, do not say it is unacceptable.'
 \v 10 This same thing happened three times, and then the sheet with all those animals and birds was pulled up into heaven again.
 
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 \v 11 At that exact moment, three men who had been sent from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying.
 \v 12 God's Spirit told me that I should not hesitate to go with them. Six brothers also went with me to Caesarea, and then we went into that man's house.
-\v 13 He told us that he had seen an angel standing in his house. The angel told him, 'Tell some men to go to Joppa and bring back Simon whose other name is Peter.
+\v 13 He told us that he had seen an angel standing in his house. The angel told him, 'Tell some men to go to Joppa and bring back Simon, whose other name is Peter.
 \v 14 He will tell you how you and everyone else in your house will be saved.'
 
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 \v 19 After Stephen died, many of the believers left Jerusalem and went to other places because they were suffering there in Jerusalem. Some of them went to Phoenicia, some went to the Island of Cyprus, and others went to Antioch, a city in Syria. In those places they were continually telling people the message about Jesus, but they told only other Jewish people.
-\v 20 Some of the believers were men from the Island of Cyprus and Cyrene city in north Africa. They went to Antioch and were also telling the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus.
-\v 21 The Lord helped those believers to preach effectively and many people believed their message and put their faith in the Lord.
+\v 20 Some of the believers were men from the island of Cyprus and from the city of Cyrene in north Africa. They went to Antioch and were also telling the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus.
+\v 21 The Lord helped those believers to preach effectively, and many people believed their message and put their faith in the Lord.
 
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 \v 27 During the time that Barnabas and Saul were at Antioch, some believers who were prophets arrived there from Jerusalem.
-\v 28 One of them, whose name was Agabus, stood up in order to speak. God's Spirit enabled him to prophesy that there would soon be a famine in many countries. (This famine happened when Claudius was the Roman emperor.)
+\v 28 One of them, whose name was Agabus, stood up to speak. God's Spirit enabled him to prophesy that there would soon be a famine in many countries. (This famine happened when Claudius was the Roman emperor.)
 
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 \v 29 When the believers there heard what Agabus said, they decided that they would send money to help the believers who lived in Judea. Each of them decided to give as much money as he was able to give.
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 \v 2 He commanded a soldier to cut off the head of the apostle James, the older brother of the apostle John. So the soldier did that.
 
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-\v 3 When Herod realized that he had pleased the leaders of the Jewish people, he commanded soldiers to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the festival when the Jewish people ate bread without yeast.
+\v 3 When Herod realized that he had pleased the leaders of the Jewish people, he commanded soldiers to arrest Peter also. This happened during the festival when the Jewish people ate bread without yeast.
 \v 4 After they arrested Peter, they put him in prison. They commanded four groups of soldiers to guard Peter. Each group had four soldiers. Herod wanted to bring Peter out of prison and judge him in front of the Jewish people after the Passover Festival was finished. He then planned to execute Peter.
 
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 \v 5 So for several days Peter stayed in prison. But the other believers in their group in Jerusalem were praying earnestly to God that he would help Peter.
-\v 6 The night before Herod planned to bring Peter out from prison to have him executed publicly, Peter was sleeping in the prison between two soldiers, with two chains binding him. Two other soldiers were guarding the prison doors.
+\v 6 The night before Herod planned to bring Peter out from prison to have him publicly executed, Peter was sleeping in the prison between two soldiers, with two chains binding him. Two other soldiers were guarding the prison doors.
 
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-\v 7 Suddenly an angel from the Lord stood beside Peter, and a bright light shone in his cell. The angel poked Peter in the side and woke him up and said, "Get up quickly!" While Peter was getting up, the chains fell off from his wrists. However, the soldiers were not aware of what was happening.
+\v 7 Suddenly an angel from the Lord stood beside Peter, and a bright light shone in his cell. The angel poked Peter in the side and woke him up and said, "Get up quickly!" While Peter was getting up, the chains fell off his wrists. However, the soldiers were not aware of what was happening.
 \v 8 Then the angel said to him, "Fasten your belt around you and put on your sandals!" So Peter did that. Then the angel told him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me!"
 
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 \v 18 The next morning the soldiers who had been guarding Peter became terribly upset, because they did not know what had happened to him.
-\v 19 Then Herod heard about it. So he commanded soldiers to search for Peter, but they did not find him. Then he questioned the soldiers who had been guarding Peter, and commanded them to be led away to be executed. Afterwards, Herod went from the province of Judea down to the city of Caesarea, where he stayed for some time.
+\v 19 Then Herod heard about it. So he commanded soldiers to search for Peter, but they did not find him. Then he questioned the soldiers who had been guarding Peter and commanded them to be led away to be executed. Afterwards, Herod went from the province of Judea down to the city of Caesarea, where he stayed for some time.
 
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 \v 21 On the day that Herod had planned to meet with them, he put on very expensive clothes that showed that he was king. Then he sat on his throne and formally addressed all the people who had gathered there.
 
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-\v 22 Those who were listening to him shouted repeatedly, "The one who is speaking is a god, and not a man!"
+\v 22 Those who were listening to him shouted repeatedly, "The one who is speaking is a god and not a man!"
 \v 23 So, because Herod let the people praise him instead of praising God, immediately an angel from the Lord caused Herod to become seriously ill. Many worms ate his intestines, and soon he died very painfully.
 
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 \v 24 The believers continued telling God's message to people in many places, and the number of people who believed in Jesus was continually increasing.
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-\v 25 When Barnabas and Saul finished delivering the money to help the believers in the province of Judea, they left Jerusalem and returned to the city of Antioch, in the province of Syria. They took John, whose other name was Mark, with them.
+\v 25 When Barnabas and Saul finished delivering the money to help the believers in the province of Judea, they left Jerusalem and returned to the city of Antioch, which was in the province of Syria. They took with them John, whose other name was Mark.
 
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