S. S. Times Acts 16:19-26 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas… 1. If you destroy a man's hope of gain you are very apt to make him your enemy. 2. When you are hindering a man's business, he will charge you with precipitating a general business panic. 3. When you drive prosperity from a bad man's door, you may be inviting adversity to enter your own. 4. When you help some afflicted one, when you free some oppressed one, the affliction or the oppression may be transferred to yourself. 5. When you do a good deed, and are put in prison for it, wait for God's deliverance — it will come. 6. The night is not all dark, nor the stocks hard, nor the imprisonment bitter, to those who, in the consciousness that they are suffering for Christ, wait for the breaking fetters and the earthquake shock. (S. S. Times.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, |
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