Reference: Paul The Apostle
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PAUL THE APOSTLE
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But a certain Pharisee, Gamaliel by name, a teacher of the law, honorable to all the people, rising in the sanhedrim command them to put the men out for a short time,
and casting him out from the city, they began to stone him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, called Saul:
and casting him out from the city, they began to stone him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, called Saul:
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there was a great persecution in that day against the church in Jerusalem: and all were dispersed abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, having come to the high priest,
And it came to pass, while prosecuting the journey he drew near to Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven shone around him;
And the men journeying along with him stood speechless, indeed hearing the voice, but seeing no one.
And the Lord said to him, Arising, go to the street which is called Straight, and seek a Tarsean, by name Saul, in the house of Judas; for, behold, he is praying,
And the Lord said to him, Go: because he is a vessel of election to me, to bear my name both before the Gentiles, and kings, and sons of Israel:
and immediately he was preaching Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
And when many days were being filled up, the Jews issued a verdict to kill him:
But Barnabas taking him, led him to the apostles, and related to them how he saw the Lord on the way, and that He spoke to him, and how he preached boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus.
And the brethren, taking cognizance, led him to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.
Then indeed those having been dispersed abroad on account of the persecution prevailing over Stephen came through even to Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews only.
And it happened unto them, a whole year indeed they assembled in the church, and taught a great multitude: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
and this they did, sending to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having filled their ministry, taking with them John, called Mark.
And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas, and Symeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manahem, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas, and Symeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manahem, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Then they indeed, having been sent away by the Holy Ghost, came down to Seleucia; and thence sailed away to Cyprus.
And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet, to whom was the name of Bar-Jesus:
And Paul, rising up, and beckoning with his hand said; Israelitish men, and those fearing God, hear.
Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:
and thence they sailed away into Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
And certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brethren that, Unless you may be circumcised, according to the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved. And there being no small contention and disputation to Paul and Barnabas against them, they delegated Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question. read more. Then indeed they having been sent away by the church, traveled through both Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles: and they continued to make great joy to all the brethren. And arriving into Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles, and the elders, and they proclaimed so many things as God did with them. And certain one of those from the sect of the Pharisees having believed arose up, saying that, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and elders were convened to see about this problem. And there being much disputation, Peter, having arisen, said to them, Men, brethren, you know that from ancient days God chose among you, that the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel through my mouth, and believe.
And there being much disputation, Peter, having arisen, said to them, Men, brethren, you know that from ancient days God chose among you, that the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel through my mouth, and believe. And God, who knows the heart, witnessed to them, giving to them the Holy Ghost, as also to us; read more. and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But through the grace of our Lord Jesus, we believe that we are saved, in the same manner in which they are also. And the whole multitude became silent, and continued to hear Barnabas and Paul, relating how many miracles and wonders God wrought among the Gentiles through them. And after they became silent, James responded, saying, Men, brethren, hear me. Symeon hath related how God in the first place interposed to take a people from the Gentiles, in His name. And to this corresponds the words of the prophet; as has been written, After these things I will return, and will build again the throne of David, which has fallen down; and will build again the ruins of the same, and will set it up again: in order that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, even all the Gentiles, on whom my name has been called upon them, says the Lord, who doeth these things known from the beginning. Therefore I judge, that we should not burden those from the Gentiles turning to God: but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood. For Moses from ancient generations, has those preaching him in every city, being read in the synagogues on every Sabbath. Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, along with the whole church, to send men chosen from them into Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas; Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brethren: having written through their hand; The apostles and elders, brethren to the brethren who are from the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia greeting. Since we heard that certain ones having come out from us troubled you, disturbing your souls with words which we did not command: it seemed good to us, being of one accord, having chosen men to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have imperiled their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, themselves also proclaiming the same things by speech. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no more burden than these necessary things, to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.
And after many days Paul said to Barnabas, Having returned let us now visit the brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, how they are doing.
And a vision was seen by Paul during the night: Some Macedonian man was standing and entreating him and saying, Having come over into Macedonia, help us.
and thence into Philippi, which is the first city of the Macedonian region, a colony. And we were in that city spending some days.
and they proclaimed customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, or to do, being Romans.
But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly uncondemned, being Roman men, they cast us into prison, and now do they cast us out privately? for no; but having come themselves let them lead us out.
And according to custom to Paul, he came in unto them, and for three Sabbaths he expounded unto them from the scriptures,
And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.
And Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said, Athenian men, I perceive that in all things you are very religious.
and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.
and having come into Caesarea, having gone up, and saluted the church, he came down to Antioch;
And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I came preaching the gospel of the kingdom, shall see my face no more.
I have not sought the silver, or gold, or raiment of any one;
And hearing that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept silent the more. And he says, I am Jewish man, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, having been brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the accuracy of patristic law, being a zealot of God, as you all are this day;
as the high priest also, and all the eldership, witnessed me: from whom having also received letters from the brethren in Damascus, I was on my way, being about to lead them also hither into Jerusalem bound, that they might be punished.
And I responded, Who art thou, Lord? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou art persecuting. And those being along with me saw the light indeed, but heard not the voice of the one speaking to me.
And it happened unto me, having returned into Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I was in an ecstasy;
And He said to me, Go: because I will send thee far away to the Gentiles.
And when they were extending him to the scourges, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?
And the chiliarch responded, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was indeed born (a Roman citizen).
And Paul, looking the sanhedrim in the face, said, Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God unto this day.
And Paul knowing that one part of them belongs to the Sadducees, and another to the Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of the Pharisees: concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am judged.
And Paul knowing that one part of them belongs to the Sadducees, and another to the Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of the Pharisees: concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am judged.
And the son of Paul's sister, having heard of ambuscade, coming and entering into the castle, reported it to Paul.
Moreover indeed all the Jews know my life from my youth; being from the beginning in my nation and in Jerusalem,
Moreover indeed all the Jews know my life from my youth; being from the beginning in my nation and in Jerusalem, knowing me originally, if they may be willing to testify, that according to the most rigid sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
which I did also in Jerusalem, and shut up many of the saints in prison; and having received authority from the chief priests, and they being slain, I gave my vote against them;
Meanwhile journeying to Damascus with power and authority of the chief priests, I saw on the way, O king,
delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
And he spent a whole biennium in his own hired house, and received all those coming to him,
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, having been separated unto the gospel of God,
through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, in behalf of his name:
In the first place, indeed, I praise my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
Then what shall we say that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, has found?
For I would pray, that I myself might be an offering from Christ; in behalf of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh:
Brethren, indeed the desire of my heart and my prayer to God in their behalf, is for their salvation.
Then I say, Did God cast away his people? it could not be so. For I am indeed an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Then I say, Did God cast away his people? it could not be so. For I am indeed an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
But I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:
And again he says, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
that I should be the minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles may be well received, having been sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
as I may journey into Spain, for I hope traveling through to see you, and by you to be sent forth thither, if in the first place I may be satisfied with your company??25 but now I journey to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints.
Then having completed and sealed this fruit unto them, I will sail away for Spain by you;
I have written unto you in a letter to have no fellowship with fornicators;
Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen the Lord Jesus? are you not my work in the Lord?
Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen the Lord Jesus? are you not my work in the Lord?
Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen the Lord Jesus? are you not my work in the Lord?
But I have used none of these things. But I have not written these things that it may be so in me: for it is good for me rather to die than that any one shall make void my boasting.
But last of all he was seen by me, as one born out of due time.
But last of all he was seen by me, as one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
But, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia;
for the brethren, having come from Macedonia, supplied my deficiency; and in everything I rendered myself not burdensome to you, and will so render.
from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one,
In Damascus Areta the governor of the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to arrest me:
And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted.
Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,
for I did not receive it from man, neither was I taught it, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
and I was prominent in Judaism above many comrades in my race, being exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days;
Then after fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking also Titus with me;
but on the contrary, seeing that I am intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, like Peter of the circumcision,
And when Cephas came into Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to blame.
Then therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God,
But I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ; for this is far better:
Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;
Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus:
in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Those things which were gained to me, these I counted loss for the sake of Christ.
And you indeed know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I came out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the word of giving and receiving, except you alone;
Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Timothy,
in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Masters, award unto the servants that which is right and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
For from you the word of the Lord echoed out, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith which is towards God has gone forth; so that we have no need to say any thing: for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,
For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil: night and day working, that we should burden no one of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews;
Because we wish to come to you, I Paul indeed both once and twice; and Satan hindered me.
For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep; in order that you may not sorrow, even as those having no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. read more. For we speak this to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, can not anticipate those who are asleep, because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, will at the same time along with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord. So comfort one another with these words.
that you be not suddenly shaken from your mind, nor disturbed, whether by a spirit, or through word, or a letter as by us, as that the day of the Lord has come.
neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you:
Salutation of me Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.
Therefore I wish the younger women to marry, to raise up children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to the adversary for the sake of reproach;
Keep yourself pure. No longer drink water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and on account of your frequent sickness.
O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called,
I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a clean conscience, as I have incessant mention of you in my prayers, night and day
having received the remembrance of the unhypocritical faith which is in you; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded that it is in you also.
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me his prisoner: but suffer affliction for the sake of the gospel according to the power of God;
You know this, that all who are in Asia, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes have turned away from me. May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because frequently he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, read more. and, being in Rome, he diligently sought me, and found me. May the Lord grant unto him to find mercy with the Lord in that day. And so many things as he ministered in Ephesus, you know better.
persecutions, sufferings; such as came to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; such persecutions as I endured: and the Lord delivered me out of them all.
and that from an infant thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Hasten to come to me quickly. For Demas has left me, having loved the present age, and is gone into Thessalonica; Crescents into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia. read more. Luke alone is with me. Having taken Mark, bring him with you: for he is useful unto me for the ministry. But I sent Tychicus into Ephesus. Coming, bring the cloak, which I left in Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments. Alexander the coppersmith showed to me much evil: the Lord will reward him according to his works. Whom you also watch for he resisted our words exceedingly. In my first defence no one stood by me, but all left me: may it not be charged against them:
In my first defence no one stood by me, but all left me: may it not be charged against them: but the Lord stood by me, and impowered me; in order that the preaching through me might be fulfilled, and all the Gentiles hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. read more. And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me into his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus. Erastus remained in Corinth: and I left Trophimus in Miletum sick. Hasten to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers salute you. The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.
not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
concerning all things exhibiting yourself an example of good works; in teaching; purity, gravity,
And at the same time also prepare for me a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I will be consigned unto you.