Acts 16:16 · World English Bible
Acts 16:16 Meaning As We Were Going to Prayer
As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
What does Acts 16:16 mean?
Truth can come out of a bad mouth and still be poison. A spirit that profits from being believed will say accurate things in order to be trusted, so where a word comes from matters as much as what it contains.
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Truth can come out of a bad mouth and still be poison. A spirit that profits from being believed will say accurate things in order to be trusted, so where a word comes from matters as much as what it contains.
Two ownerships rest on the same girl, one holding her body and one holding her inner life, and the second is what made the first profitable. Wherever a person is being used, something spiritual is usually feeding on it as well, and setting her free will cost the men who were paid for her.
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Live Acts 16:16 today
- When something true and flattering shows up in your feed today, ask who makes money if you believe it. The answer changes how it lands.
- If a conversation leaves you feeling slightly managed, say so out loud, kindly and plainly. I am not sure what you are asking me for here is a fair sentence.
- When someone is pressuring you and using accurate facts to do it, slow down and separate the two. The facts can be right and the ask can still be wrong.
Whose words do I let in without ever asking what they want from me?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · right speech
Words are weighed by where they come from and what they are for, not only by whether they are accurate. A true thing said to manipulate someone is still harm.
Tao Te Ching 81
True words are not dressed up, and dressed-up words are not true. Be careful with speech that is pleasant and persuasive and busy selling you something.
Stoicism · Epictetus
When an impression arrives, do not be carried off by it. Stop it, examine it, and only then agree, because most of what enslaves a person was simply let in unexamined.
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