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 \v 22 So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said,
 \p "You men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.
-\v 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found an altar with this inscription, "TO AN UNKNOWN GOD."  What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
+\v 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'  What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
 
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 \v 27 so that they should search for God and perhaps they may feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us.
 
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-\v 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, just as one of your own poets has said, 'For we also are his offspring.'
+\v 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, just as one of your own poets has said: 'For we also are his offspring.'
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 \v 29 "Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the qualities of deity are like gold, or silver, or stone—images created by the art and imagination of man.
 
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 \v 20 When they heard it, they glorified God, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands have believed among the Jews. They are all zealous to keep the law.
-\v 21 They have been told about you, that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children, and not to walk according the traditional ways.
+\v 21 They have been told about you, that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children, and not to walk according to the traditional ways.
 
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 \v 22 What should we do? They will certainly hear that you have come.
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-\v 6 When Paul saw that the one part of the council were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he spoke loudly in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is because I have the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am being judged."
+\v 6 When Paul saw that the one part of the council were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he spoke loudly in the council: "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is because I have the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am being judged."
 \v 7 When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.
 \v 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, no angels, and no spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge all of them.
 
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 \v 1 After five days, Ananias the high priest, certain elders, and an orator named Tertullus went there. These men brought charges against Paul before the governor.
 \v 2 When Paul stood before the governor, Tertullus began to accuse him and said to the governor, "Because of you we have great peace, and your foresight brings good reform to our nation;
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 \v 3 so with all thankfulness we welcome everything that you do, most excellent Felix.
 
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 \v 21 But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody while awaiting the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to Caesar."
-\v 22 Agrippa spoke to Festus, "I would also like to listen to this man." "Tomorrow," Festus said, "you will hear him."
+\v 22 Agrippa spoke to Festus: "I would also like to listen to this man." "Tomorrow," Festus said, "you will hear him."
 
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 \v 9 Now indeed, I myself thought that I should do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
 \v 10 I did these in Jerusalem. I locked up in prison many of God's holy people by the authority I received from the chief priests; and when they were killed, I cast my vote against them.
-\v 11 I punished them many times in all the synagogues and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was furiously enraged against them and I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
+\v 11 I punished them many times in all the synagogues, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was furiously enraged against them, and I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
 
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 \v 12 While I was doing this, I went to Damascus with authority and orders from the chief priests;