Acts 16:14
“"And a certain woman": a woman and she of low condition, from her trade too: but mark in her a woman of elevated mind. In the first place, the fact of God's calling her bears testimony to her. "And a certain woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple": observe how the writer of the history is not ashamed of the occupation…”
14And 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.
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12And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
13And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
— Acts 16:14 —
15And 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. And she constrained us.
16And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: