Acts 16:2
Good News Translation
All the believers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of Timothy.

New Revised Standard Version
He was well spoken of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord's followers in Lystra and Iconium said good things about Timothy,

New American Bible
The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
To this man the brethren that were in Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To this man the brethren that were in Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony.

was.

Acts 6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

1 Timothy 5:10,25 Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work. . . .

2 Timothy 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 11:2 For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.

Iconium.

Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch:

2 Timothy 3:11 Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Context
Timothy Joins Paul and Silas
1And he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman that believed: but his father was a Gentile. 2To this man the brethren that were in Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony. 3Him Paul would have to go along with him: and taking him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who were in those places. For they all knew that his father was a Gentile.…
Cross References
Acts 1:15
In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):

Acts 13:51
But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

Acts 14:1
And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spoke that a very great multitude both of the Jews and of the Greeks did believe.

Acts 14:6
They, understanding it, fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the whole country round about: and were there preaching the gospel.

Acts 16:40
And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia: and having seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.

Philippians 2:22
Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father, so hath he served with me in the gospel.

Acts 16:1
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