it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus;

“Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, greetings.

we acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

But Paul *said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.

But earnestly desire the greater gifts.And I show you a still more excellent way.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.