⁷ Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

³⁸ If, then, Demetrius and the workmen who are with him have a protest to make against any man, the law is open to them, and there are judges; let them put up a cause at law against one another.

¹² Then the ruler, when he saw what was done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of the Lord.

¹² But when Gallio was ruler of Achaia, all the Jews together made an attack on Paul, and took him to the judge's seat,

⁸ But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

¹⁵ The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

²¹ Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;

¹¹ Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

¹² And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.

⁹ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

¹⁸ Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.

¹⁵ The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.

⁸ The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.