"For in the Book of Psalms it is written, 'Let his estate be desolate, with no one to live on it,' and 'Let someone else take his position.'

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices, And my body will still live in hope.

You have made the ways of life known to me, And you will fill me with joy in your presence.'

and killed the very source of life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can testify.

"Go, take your stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."

The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

So he left the country of the Chaldeans and went to live in Haran, and from there after the death of his father, God caused him to move into this country where you now live.

He took advantage of our people and oppressed our forefathers, making them abandon their infant children, so that they should not live.

It was he who with the congregation in the desert went between the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and our forefathers, and received and communicated to you utterances that still live.

But the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

His sentence ended in his humiliation. Who will tell the story of his posterity? For his life is perished from the earth."

But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen,

When they heard this, they made no further objection, but they gave honor to God, and said, "Then God has given even the heathen repentance and the hope of life!"

that God has fulfilled to us, their children, the promise that he made to our forefathers, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the second psalm, You are my Son! Today I have become your Father!'

but he whom God raised to life did not undergo it.

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,

nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

From one forefather he has created every nation of mankind, and made them live all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

They have been told that you teach all Jews who live among the heathen to turn away from Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children nor to observe the old customs.

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present, you see here the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

for they have known from the first, if they are willing to give evidence, that I was a Pharisee and my life was that of the strictest sect of our religion.

but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

Even now, I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "This man is undoubtedly a murderer, for though he has been saved from the sea, justice will not let him live."

When we reached Rome, Paul was given permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.