The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged him to tell no one, 'that these things thou didst shew unto me;'

and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, 'Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;

beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;'

This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them -- having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;

Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,

And the governor having read it, and inquired of what province he is, and understood that he is from Cilicia;

and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;

And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- 'Knowing that for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

'And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;

asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,

unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against him.

concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;

knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'

saying to them, 'Men, I perceive that with hurt, and much damage, not only of the lading and of the ship, but also of our lives -- the voyage is about to be;'

and not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, that is called Euroclydon,

wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,

And when the fourteenth night came -- we being borne up and down in the Adria -- toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land.

And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita,

And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge us;

who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail -- they were lading us with the things that were necessary.

And after three months, we set sail in a ship (that had wintered in the isle) of Alexandria, with the sign Dioscuri,

and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;'

'Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;

for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest it to them,

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man -- every one who is judging -- for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,

and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, 'That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say -- 'We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous.

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?

and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- 'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,

And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,

knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;

so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,

and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us;

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;