Acts 16 (NMV)
1 Paul went on to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek.
2 The brothers and sisters in Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.
3 Paul wanted Timothy to go with him, so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was Greek.
4 As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
6 They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia.
7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
8 So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.
9 During the night, Paul had a vision in which a man of Macedonia was standing and pleading with him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!"
10 After he saw the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
11 From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis,
12 and from there to Philippi, a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for several days.
13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.
14 A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.
15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.
16 Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to predict the future. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.
17 She followed Paul and us and kept crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved!"
18 She did this for many days. Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the spirit, he said, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out right away.
19 When her owners realized that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
20 Bringing them before the magistrates, they said, "These men are disturbing the peace of our city. They are Jews,
21 and they are promoting customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to accept or practice."
22 The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods.
23 After they had severely beaten them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to guard them securely.
24 Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25 Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing songs of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains came loose.
27 When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had escaped.
28 But Paul called out in a loud voice, "Don't harm yourself, because we are all here!"
29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
30 He escorted them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
31 They replied, "Put your faith in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.
33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his household were baptized.
34 He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.
35 When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, "Release those men."
36 The jailer reported these words to Paul: "The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released. So come out now and go in peace."
37 But Paul said to them, "They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out."
38 The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
39 So they came to appease them, and escorting them from the prison, they urged them to leave the city.
40 After leaving the jail, they went to Lydia's house, where they saw and encouraged the brothers and sisters, and then they departed.