A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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TSK · Acts 6:5
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.