¹Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

¹Huan, Amphikoli khua leh Appolonia khua a kheng ua, Thessalonika khua a tungta uh, huaiah Judate kikhop in a om hi;

²Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

²Huan, Paula, a dan ngeinain, a kiang uah a luta, Khawlni thumvei Laisiangthou akipanin teltaka sutpihin,

³explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

³Kris tuh gimthuak ding him a hihdan khawng, misi lak akipana leng thou nawn ding him a hihdan khawng a hilhchiana, a hihlang jel hi. Hiai Jesu, a thu ka honhilh, amah Kris tuh ahi, chiin a gen behlap hi.

⁴Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

⁴Huchiin, a lak ua khenkhatin a ging ua, Paula leh Sila a kithuahpihta uhi; Pathian limsak Grik mipi thupi tak leh numei makai tampi toh.

⁵But the unpersuaded Jews took along TR reads “And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along” instead of “But the unpersuaded Jews took along” some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

⁵Himahleh ginglou Judaten a mullit ua; dawl mun a mi gilou thadah kuate hiam a kiang uah a tonpih ua, mipi a sam khawm ua, khua pumpi a tokbuai ua, Jason in a luh ua, vantang kianga pikhiak a tum uhi.

⁶When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

⁶Huan, amau a mu kei ua, Jason leh unau ding kuate hiam kho heutute kiangah a kailut ua, a kikou ua, Khovel tokbuaite hiaiah leng a hong ua,

⁷whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

⁷Jasonin a nazintun viala; hiaite tengteng tuh, A min Jesu, kumpipa dang a om chiin, Kaisar thu kalhin a om uhi, a chi ua.

⁸The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

⁸Huan, mipi leh kho heututen huai thu a jak un a buaita ua.

⁹When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

⁹Huan, Jason leh midangte kiang akipanin, a sik ua hen dingin bang hiam a la ua, amau tuh a khahta uhi.

¹⁰The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

¹⁰Huan, unauten ajan ajanin Beria khua ah Paula leh Sila a hohsak pah uh; huailai a vatun un Judate kikhopna in ah a lut ua.

¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

¹¹Huai mite tuh Thessalonika khuate sangin a na hoihjaw ua, huchiin lungsim kipaktakin thu a pom ua, a thugen uh a dik leh diklouh theihna dingin nitengin laisiangthou a zong jel uhi.

¹²Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

¹²Huchiin, huaite mi tampiin a gingtata uhi; Grik numei zahtakhuai leh pasalte leng duaisanin a gingtata kei uhi.

¹³But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

¹³Himahleh, Thessalonika khuaa Judanten, Paulain Beria khua ah Pathian thu a gen chih a jak tak un, huaiah leng a vahoh ua, mipite a hasuan gawp ua, a hihbuai nawnta uhi.

¹⁴Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

¹⁴Huchiin, unauten tuipi tana hoh dingin Paula a sawlkhe pah ua, Sila leh Timothi bel huaiah a om tadih uhi.

¹⁵But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

¹⁵Huan, Paula piten Anthen kha tannin a pi ua; huan, Sila leh Timothi tuh theihtawpa a kianga hongpai mengna ding thukhah puain a paita uhi.

¹⁶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

¹⁶Huan, Paulain Athen khua a amau a nangak lain, huai khua pathian lima dimin a mu a, a lungsimin a hehta a.

¹⁷So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

¹⁷Huchiin, kikhopna in ah Judate leh Pathian limsakte a sel jela, dawl mun ah leng huaia naom peuhmahte tuh nitengin a sel jel hi.

¹⁸Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also TR omits “also” were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁸Huan, Epikuria mi leh Stok mi laka mi pil kuate hiam in leng amah a hongkiselpih ua. Hiai mi tamtamin bang ahia gen a tup? a chi ua. Akhenin, Jesu thu leh Thohnawnna thu a gen jiakin gam dang pathiante thugenpa a hih tuak e, a chi ua.

¹⁹They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

¹⁹Huan, amah a len ua, Areopaga ah a honpi ua, a kiangah, hiai thuhilhna thak na gengen non theisak thei diam?

²⁰For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

²⁰Thil lamdang banghiam ka bil uah na hontun ahi; huchiin, hiai thil omdan theih ka ut uh, a chi ua.

²¹Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

²¹Athente tengteng, a khua ua mikhual omte leng, a man chiang peuh un thu thak photphot genin hiam, a ngaikhe bekin hiamin a om uhi.

²²Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

²²Huan, Areopaga laitak ah Paula a dinga, a gena, nou Athen khua a mite aw, bangkim ah sabiak limsaktak mi na hi uh chih ka thei hi.

²³For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

²³Ka vak kawma, na chibai bukte uh ka et lain, maitam khat, a tunga, Theihlouh Pathian Ading, chia gelh, ka mu ahi. Huchiin, theiloua chibai na buk uh, huai thu tuh ka honhilh ahi.

²⁴The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,

²⁴Pathian khovel leh a sunga thil tengteng siampa, lei leh van Toupa a hihjiakin khuta lam in ah khawngpeuh a om kei hi;

²⁵neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

²⁵thil tasam bangin mihing khuta nasep sakin leng om kei, amah mah tuh bangkim kianga hinna, hatna leh thil tengteng pepa ahi jaw hi.

²⁶He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

²⁶Huan, leitung maikaih tengtenga om dingin bul mun khat vekin nam chih mi a siama, amau adingin hun bisehte a sehsaka, a omna gi uh leng a khunsak.

²⁷that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

²⁷Pathian a zon ua, a mai a mai ua, a muh teiteina ding un; himahleh aman lah hongamlat kei chiat ngala.

²⁸‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

²⁸Amah vangin i hingin i tangin, i om uh ahi ngala; Noumau laphuahsiam kuate hiamin leng, ei leng a suante i hi ngal ua, chia a gen bang un.

²⁹Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

²⁹Huchiin, Pathian Suante i hih nung, Pathian tuh dangkaeng peuh, dangka peuh, suang peuh, mihing khutsiam leh suktuaha sekte bang hiam ahi, chih, i gingta ding ahi kei.

³⁰The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

³⁰Huchiin, Pathianin i theihlouh laikhawng bang a kitheihmohbawla; himahleh, tunah jaw gam chiha mi tengteng kisik ding thu a peta hi, ni achiam jiakin;

³¹because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

³¹huai ni chiangin Pathianin a mi seh zangin diktatnain khovel a vaihawm ding; huan a miseh tung thu tuh amah misi laka kipana kaithouin, mitengteng kiangah a theisakta hi, chiin.

³²Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

³²Huan, misi laka kipana thohnawnna thu a jak tak un, a khenin a nuihsan ua; a khenin, hiai thu na kiangah ka ngaikhe nawn ding uh, a chi ua.

³³Thus Paul went out from among them.

³³Huchiin, Paula tuh a lak ua kipan a pawtta hi.Himahleh, mi kuate hiam amah lamah a pang chinten ua, a gingtata ua, huai laka khenkhat tuh Areopaga mi Dionisia leh, numei khat a min Damari leh, a kiang ua midangte toh ahi uh.

³⁴But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

³⁴Himahleh, mi kuate hiam amah lamah a pang chinten ua, a gingtata ua, huai laka khenkhat tuh Areopaga mi Dionisia leh, numei khat a min Damari leh, a kiang ua midangte toh ahi uh.