Acts 16:38-40
38 And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens. 39 Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, and asked them to depart from the city. 40 So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.
The legal ramifications of what the rulers did to Roman citizens, beating and imprisoning them, were used here by Paul to be set free. This meant a time of less persecution, but only in that town and only for a short while. God used this to move them back to Lydia's house to encourage the believers before going on to the next town with the words of this life. So the obedient Christian life leads to trials and sometimes even death; but these set the example of not loving their lives even to death, crucified daily with Christ.
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