And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,

And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.

And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;

And falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground, and the prow having stuck itself fast remained unmoved, but the stern was broken by the force of the waves.

And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim off and escape.

And when we got safe to land we then knew that the island was called Melita.

But the barbarians shewed us no common kindness; for, having kindled a fire, they took us all in because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but Paul was allowed to remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.

who having examined me were minded to let me go, because there was nothing worthy of death in me.

But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation of.

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For it was not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but by righteousness of faith.

who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

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

(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.

But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,

but according as it is written, To whom there was nothing told concerning him, they shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them: (now the rock was the Christ;)

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

For also man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

and that he was buried; and that he was raised the third day, according to the scriptures;

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual:

Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because they have supplied what was lacking on your part.

For also that which was glorified is not glorified in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

For if that annulled was introduced with glory, much rather that which abides subsists in glory.

how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their offences; and putting in us the word of that reconciliation.

and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

begging of us with much entreaty to give effect to the grace and fellowship of the service which was to be rendered to the saints.

But now also complete the doing of it; so that as there was the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.

According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.

that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable things said which it is not allowed to man to utter.

And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted.

For neither did I receive them from man, neither was I taught them, but by revelation of Jesus Christ.

For ye have heard what was my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;

was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I may announce him as glad tidings among the nations, immediately I took not counsel with flesh and blood,

But I was unknown personally to the assemblies of Judaea which are in Christ;

(but neither was Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised;)

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

only that we should remember the poor, which same thing also I was diligent to do.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be condemned:

and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.

Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith which was about to be revealed.

but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,

and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given them to me.

But he that was of the maid servant was born according to flesh, and he that was of the free woman through the promise.

But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him that was born according to Spirit, so also it is now.

For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;

since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

for in him all the fulness of the Godhead was pleased to dwell,

having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

for Adam was formed first, then Eve:

and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression.

who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,

But the Lord stood with me, and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all those of the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

(for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses?

And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

Now consider how great this personage was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.

For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which were both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;

Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.