But a certain man, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.

But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest

But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,

But the men who were travelling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but beholding no one.

And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, he is of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel:

And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that he is the Son of God.

Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.

And the brethren knowing it, brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through the country to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.

And having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service entrusted to them, taking also with them John, surnamed Mark.

Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

They therefore, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and thence sailed away to Cyprus.

And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,

And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.

and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. read more. They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of those of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren. And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all that God had wrought with them. And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among them, saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter. And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe. And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit as to us also, read more. and put no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we shall be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also. And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them. And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, listen to me: Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name. And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written: After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up, so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things known from eternity. Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God; but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood. For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath. Then it seemed good to the apostles and to the elders, with the whole assembly, to send chosen men from among them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, Judas called Barsabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren, having by their hand written thus: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among the nations at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting: Inasmuch as we have heard that some who went out from amongst us have troubled you by words, upsetting your souls, saying that ye must be circumcised and keep the law; to whom we gave no commandment; it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves also will tell you by word of mouth the same things. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, and see how they are getting on.

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.

and thence to Philippi, which is the first city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city certain days.

and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to receive nor practise, being Romans.

But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, us who are Romans, they have cast us into prison, and now they thrust us out secretly? no, indeed, but let them come themselves and bring us out.

And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,

And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;

And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;

and because they were of the same trade abode with them, and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.

And landing at Caesarea, and having gone up and saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

I have coveted the silver or gold or clothing of no one.

But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me to speak to the people. And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye are all this day;

as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.

And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom thou persecutest. But they that were with me beheld the light, and were filled with fear, but heard not the voice of him that was speaking to me.

And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,

And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.

But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also free born.

And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.

But Paul, knowing that the one part of them were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.

But Paul, knowing that the one part of them were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.

But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported it to Paul.

My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews, who knew me before from the outset of my life, if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote.

And when, engaged in this, I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and power from the chief priests,

taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to whom I send thee,

And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging, and received all who came to him,

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

by whom we have received grace and apostleship in behalf of his name, for obedience of faith among all the nations,

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

What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?

for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am apostle of nations, I glorify my ministry;

And again he says, Rejoice, nations, with his people.

for me to be minister of Christ Jesus to the nations, carrying on as a sacrificial service the message of glad tidings of God, in order that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)

Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.

I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to me also.

and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;

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.

Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from among the dead,

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

and advanced in Judaism beyond many my contemporaries in my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my fathers.

nor went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.

nor went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus.

nor went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;

Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

Then after a lapse of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me;

but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

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

But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better,

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

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

but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

And know also ye, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out of Macedonia, no assembly communicated anything to me in the way of giving and receiving save ye alone;

Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus, by God's will, and Timotheus the brother,

in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

Masters, give to bondmen what is just and fair, knowing that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

for the word of the Lord sounded out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone abroad, so that we have no need to say anything; for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which we had to you, that it has not been in vain;

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

wherefore we have desired to come to you, even I Paul, both once and twice, and Satan has hindered us.

Wherefore, being no longer able to refrain ourselves, we thought good to be left alone in Athens,

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. read more. (For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep; for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall be always with the Lord. So encourage one another with these words.)

that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

The salutation by the hand of me, Paul, which is the mark in every letter; so I write.

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

I will therefore that the younger marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary in respect of reproach.

Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine on account of thy stomach and thy frequent illnesses.

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

calling to mind the unfeigned faith which has been in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;

Thou knowest this, that all who are in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me. The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain; read more. but being in Rome sought me out very diligently, and found me -- the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day and how much service he rendered in Ephesus thou knowest best.

persecutions, sufferings: what sufferings happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.

and that from a child thou hast known the sacred letters, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Use diligence to come to me quickly; for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age, and is gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. read more. Luke alone is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thyself, for he is serviceable to me for ministry. But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. The cloak which I left behind me in Troas at Carpus's, bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments. Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to him according to his works. Against whom be thou also on thy guard, for he has greatly withstood our words. At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.

At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them. 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. read more. The Lord shall deliver me from every wicked work, and shall preserve me for his heavenly kingdom; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen. Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus sick. Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all. The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.

not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,

But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers.