Acts 16:17
Good News Translation
She followed Paul and us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God! They announce to you how you can be saved!"

New Revised Standard Version
While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.”

Contemporary English Version
The girl followed Paul and the rest of us, and she kept yelling, "These men are servants of the Most High God! They are telling you how to be saved."

New American Bible
She began to follow Paul and us, shouting, “These people are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of salvation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of salvation.

These.

Acts 19:13 Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.

Matthew 8:29 And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

Mark 1:24 Saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 4:34,41 Saying: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. . . .

the servants.

Daniel 3:26,28 Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for ever: . . .

Daniel 6:16,20 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of the lions. And the king said to Daniel: Thy God, whom thou always servest, he will deliver thee. . . .

Jonah 1:9 And they said to him: Tell us for what cause this evil is upon us, what is thy business? of what country art thou? and whither goest thou? or of what people art thou?

1 Peter 2:16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

the most.

Genesis 14:18-22 But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God, . . .

Psalm 57:2 I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me.

Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

Daniel 4:2 I saw a dream that affrighted me: and my thoughts in my bed, and the visions of my head, troubled me.

Daniel 5:18,21 O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour. . . .

Micah 6:6 What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

Mark 5:7 And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.

Luke 8:28 And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him. And crying out with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I beseech thee, do not torment me.

the way.

Acts 16:30,31 And bringing them out, he said: Masters, what must I do, that I may be saved? . . .

Acts 18:26 This man therefore began to speak boldly in the synagogue. Whom when Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took him to them and expounded to him the way of the Lord more diligently.

Matthew 7:13,14 Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. . . .

Matthew 22:16 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

Mark 12:14 Who coming, say to him: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and carest not for any man; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar? Or shall we not give it?

Luke 1:77,79 To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins. . . .

Luke 20:21 And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest and teachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but teachest the way of God in truth.

John 14:6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Hebrews 10:19-22 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

Context
Paul and Silas Imprisoned
16And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl having a pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters much gain by divining. 17This same following Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are the servants of the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of salvation. 18And this she did many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit: I command thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, to go from her. And he went out the same hour.…
Cross References
Mark 5:7
And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.

2 Peter 2:2
And many shall follow their riotousness, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Acts 16:16
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