Lydia

Family: Christian · Role: seller of purple · First appears: Acts 16

At Philippi, on the sabbath, Lydia, a seller of purple, worshipped God, who opened her heart to Paul’s teaching. After she and her household were baptized, she urged Paul and Silas to stay in her house, saying, “If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.”

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Lydia was baptized after God opened her heart to Paul’s teaching.(Acts 16 · 📍 Philippi)
- With: God
- “And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.”

Acts 16

deity: God (Lydia worshipped God.) “And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.”
with Paul (Lydia offered Paul and his companions hospitality.) “If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.”
with Silas (Lydia offered Silas hospitality in her house.) “If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.”

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.