But there stood up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, in high esteem with all the people, and commanded to put the men forth a little while,

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul;

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul;

And Saul was consenting to his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and all were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

But Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shone around a him a light from heaven;

And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but seeing no one.

And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the street called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus; for lo! he prayeth,

But the Lord said to him, Go; for this man is to me a chosen vessel, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel.

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

But after many days had passed, the Jews took counsel together to kill him;

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

But the brethren obtaining knowledge of it, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

Now they who were scattered abroad by the persecution that arose on account of Stephen traveled as far as Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that for a whole year they came together in the church, and taught a great multitude; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

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

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having performed their service, taking with them also John, surnamed Mark.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenaean, and Manaen, the fosterbrother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers; Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenaean, and Manaen, the fosterbrother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

They therefore being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, came down to Seleucia, and from thence sailed to Cyprus.

And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magian, a Jewish false prophet, whose name was Barjesus,

Then Paul stood up, and beckoned with his hand and said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken.

and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like nature with you, bringing to you glad tidings, that ye may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea, and all things that are therein;

and thence set sail for Antioch, whence they had been commended to the grace of God, for the work which they had accomplished.

And there came down certain men from Judaea, and taught the brethren, Unless ye are circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved. But when Paul and Barnabas had had no small dissension and debate with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. read more. They therefore, having been sent forward by the church, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. And having come to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they related what great things God had wrought with them. But there rose up certain believers of the sect of the Pharisees, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter. And after much debate, Peter rose up and said to them, Brethren, ye know that a long time ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the glad tidings, and believe.

And after much debate, Peter rose up and said to them, Brethren, ye know that a long time ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the glad tidings, and believe. And God, who knoweth the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it to us; read more. and made no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by faith. Now therefore why do ye provoke the anger of God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they. And all the multitude became silent, and listened to Barnabas and Paul, while they related what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the gentiles by them. And after they had done speaking, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken to me. Simeon hath related how God first visited the gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And with this agree the words of the Prophets, as it is written: "After this I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which hath fallen; and I will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up; that the rest of men may seek after the Lord, and all the gentiles, who have been called by my name, saith the Lord, who doeth these things, which were known from the beginning." Wherefore my judgment is, that we should not trouble those who from among the gentiles are turning to God; but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood. For Moses from the times of old hath had in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath. Then it was decided by the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among themselves, and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren. And they wrote by them, "The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from the gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greeting. Whereas we have heard, that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no command; it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to choose men and send them to you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who will themselves tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no further burden except these necessary things: to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell."

And some days after, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit the brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are.

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood a man of Macedonia beseeching him and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.

and thence to Philippi, which is a chief city of the province of Macedonia, a colony. And we remained in the city some days.

and they teach customs which it is not lawful for us Romans to receive or observe.

But Paul said to them, They have publicly beaten us uncondemned, although we are Romans, and have thrust us into prison; and now do they thrust us out secretly? No; but let them come themselves, and bring us out.

And Paul, as his custom was, went in among them, and for three sabbaths discoursed to them out of the Scriptures,

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very devout.

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are very devout.

and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and worked; for they were tentmakers by trade.

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

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will see my face no more.

I have coveted no mans silver, or gold, or apparel.

But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus, a citizen of no mean city of Cilicia; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people. And when he had given him leave, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with his hand to the people, and there was a great silence; and he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

And on hearing him speak to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence. And he saith: I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, hut brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel in the strictness of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.

as also the highpriest beareth me witness, and all the elderhood; from whom I received letters to the brethren, and was on my way to Damascus to bring those also that were there, bound, to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecutest. And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but the voice of him that spoke to me they did not hear.

And it came to pass after my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,

And he said to me, Depart; for I will send thee far hence to the gentiles.

But when they had stretched him out with the cords, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

The chief captain answered, For a great sum I obtained this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was born a Roman.

And Paul looking earnestly upon the council, said: Brethren! I have ordered my life in all good conscience before God to this day.

But Paul, perceiving one part to be Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried aloud in the council, Brethren! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; for the hope of the resurrection of the dead I am now tried.

But Paul, perceiving one part to be Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried aloud in the council, Brethren! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; for the hope of the resurrection of the dead I am now tried.

But Pauls sisters son hearing of the plot went, and entering the castle, told Paul.

My manner of life, then, from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all Jews know:

My manner of life, then, from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all Jews know: and they know, if they are willing to testify, that from the first, according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

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

And as I was going to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the chief priests,

delivering thee from the people, and from the gentiles, to whom I send thee,

And he abode two whole years in his own hired house and gladly received all that came in to him,

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, set apart to preach the gospel of God,

through whom we received grace and the office of an apostle in behalf of his name, in order to produce obedience to the faith among all nations;

In the first place, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

What advantage then shall we say that Abraham our father had as to the flesh?

For I could wish to be myself accursed and cast out from Christ in behalf of my brethren, my kinsmen as to the flesh;

Brethren, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God for them is, that they may be saved.

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? Far be it I For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I say then, Hath God cast off his people? Far be it I For I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

For I am speaking to you gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the gentiles, I magnify my office,

And again he saith: "Rejoice, ye gentiles, with his people."

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

when I go to Spain, I will come to you; for I hope to see you on my way, and to be helped forward thither by you, after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company.

When therefore I have completed this business, and secured to them this fruit, I shall set out to pass through you to Spain.

I wrote to you in that letter, not to keep company with fornicators;

Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?

But I have used no right of this kind; nor have I written thus that anything of this kind should be done for me; for it were better for me to die, than that any one should take from me what I glory in.

And last of all, as to one born out of due time, he appeared also to me.

And last of all, as to one born out of due time, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, one not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been bestowed in the churches of Macedonia;

and when I was present with you, and in want, I was a charge to no one; (for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied my wants;) and in every thing I kept myself and will keep myself from being burdensome to you.

of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one;

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept guard over the city of the Damascenes, in order to apprehend me;

And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.

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 nor was I taught it by any man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.

and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for 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 become acquainted with Cephas, and stayed with him fifteen days;

Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me.

But on the contrary, when they saw that I was intrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, as Peter was with that to the circumcised,

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I withstood him to the face; for he was condemned.

Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellowcitizens with the saints, and members of the household of God,

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to make known among the gentiles the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ,

but I am held in a strait by the two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; for it is far better;

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Yea, let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

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

circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

But whatever things were gain to me, those for the sake of Christ I have counted but loss.

And ye yourselves also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in an account of giving and receiving, but ye only;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother,

in which are stored up all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Masters, deal out to your bondservants justice and equity, knowing that ye also have a master in heaven.

For from you the word of the Lord hath sounded forth not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God hath become known; so that we need not say anything [about you]. For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

For ye yourselves know, brethren, that our coming among you hath not been in vain;

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil, how laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

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

Wherefore we purposed to come to you, that is, I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

Wherefore, when we could no longer forbear, we chose to be left at Athens alone,

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are sleeping, that ye may not sorrow, as others do, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then also will God, through Jesus, bring again with him those who have fallen asleep. read more. For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are living, we who are left till the coming of the Lord, shall not anticipate those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are living, we who are left, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord. So then comfort one another with these words.

that ye be not easily shaken in mind, nor troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as if the day of the Lord were close at hand.

neither did we eat any mans bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you.

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

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those who believe and know the truth.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

No longer drink water only, but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake, and thy frequent infirmities.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane babblings, and oppositions of the falselycalled knowledge;

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, as without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,

when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it dwelleth in thee also.

Be not then ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship with me for the gospel through the power of God,

Thou knowest this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; but on the contrary, read more. when he arrived at Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me. The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day: and what services he rendered me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

persecutions, sufferings; what things came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

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

Use diligence to come to me shortly. For Demas forsook me, because he loved the present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. read more. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for the ministry. But Tychicus I sent to Ephesus. The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest bring with thee, and the books, especially the parchments. Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord will reward him according to his works; of whom do thou also beware; for he hath greatly withstood our words. At my first defence no one came forward with me, but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge!

At my first defence no one came forward with me, but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge! But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the preaching might be fully accomplished by me, and that all the gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the lions mouth. read more. The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed, and preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left at Miletus sick. Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus saluteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.

whose mouths must be stopped, since they overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works, in teaching showing uncorruptness, gravity,

And at the same time make ready a lodging for me; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.