Lystra

¹⁰ You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance,

¹¹ my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

⁵ But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

⁶ they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,

⁷ where they continued to preach the gospel.

⁸ In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.

²¹ They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

¹ Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.

² The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.