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When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes[a] and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”(A)

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  1. 18.6 Gk reviled him, he shook out his clothes

But when they opposed Paul and became abusive,(A) he shook out his clothes in protest(B) and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads!(C) I am innocent of it.(D) From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”(E)

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They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](A)

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  1. 4.4 Or they malign you

They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.(A)

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10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.

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10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.(A)

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