This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them: having stood with an army, I took him away, having learned that he is a Roman.

When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you right away. I also ordered his accusers to state their case against him in your presence.

So Paul was summoned, and then Tertullus proceeded to accuse him. "Your excellency," he said to Felix, "as it is owing to you that we enjoy unbroken peace, and as it is owing to your wise care that the state of this nation has been improved in every way and everywhere,

Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

other than for this one statement which I had shouted out as I stood among them, ‘For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today.’”

Having staid above eight, nay ten days, he went to Cesarea, and on the morrow mounting the tribunal, he order'd Paul to be brought before him.

And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.

Some time after, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea on a state visit to Festus,

And when they had staid there many days, Festus proposed the case of Paul to the king, saying, There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix,

Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:

"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa. "to-morrow," replied Festus, "you shall." Accordingly, the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came in state

So the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come in full state and had entered the Audience Chamber, with the superior officers and the principal people of the city, by the order of Festus Paul was brought before them.

For it seems absurd and unreasonable to me to send a prisoner [to Rome] without indicating the charges against him.”

and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

Having therefore met with the help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,

And the king stood up, and the governor and Bernice, and those who sat with them,

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

But until the day was about to come, Paul exhorted all to take food, saying, Already this day you remain in a state of solicitude, the fourteenth day, receiving nothing.

And being arrived at Syracuse, we staid there three days.

But we want to hear you state your views, for as far as this sect is concerned, we understand that everywhere it is denounced."

After this, Paul staid two whole years in a house he had hired, and gave access to all that visited him,

And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was uncircumcised, in order that he might be the father of all that believe, even in a state of uncircumcision, so that righteousness might be counted to them also;

As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in the presence of God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't yet exist.

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

for at the appointed time Christ died for us, when we were in a helpless, sinful state.

But God commendeth his own love towards us, that, though we were yet sinners, Christ died in our stead.

don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death.

therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you,

you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you. now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

For [all] creation [Note: "Creation" here refers to the material heavens and earth, and is personified through verse 23] is eagerly waiting for the children of God to be revealed [i.e., in their glorious state].

who were not, by their own choice, expos'd to this uncertain state, but by virtue of him, who subjected them thereto:

And those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified [declared free of the guilt of sin]; and those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity].

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be,

and as Esaias said before, "except the God of heaven had left us a remnant, we had been as Sodoma, and brought to the state of Gomorrha."

The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."

by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

For, because of this, are ye paying tribute also, - for, God's ministers of state, they are, unto this very thing, giving constant attendance.

for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking [what one likes], but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For the message of [Christ dying on] the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing [i.e., in a lost state], but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

I came to you in [a state of] weakness and fear and great trembling.

Each person should live according to what the Lord has given him and in the state he was when God called him. And this is what I require in all the churches.

Each person should remain in the [same] state he was in when he was called [by God].

Brothers, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was [when he was] called.

And this I say for your particular advantage, not to lay any constraint upon you, but as that which is most suitable to a state of uninterrupted attendance upon religion.

And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;

But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, 'The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.

For now [i.e., during the church's infant state] we see in a mirror [Note: God's word is elsewhere likened to a mirror. See James 1:22-25] indistinctly [i.e., because of having only partial knowledge and prophecy], but then [i.e., when the church matures and has the completed Scriptures], we will see face to face [i.e., clearly]. Now I have [only] partial knowledge, but then I will have full knowledge, just as [God has] full knowledge of me.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;

The body is planted in a state of dishonor but is raised in a state of splendor. It is planted in weakness but is raised in power.

For a door has stood open to me, great and effective, and many opposed.

not that I would arbitrarily prescribe what you should believe, but rather encourage you to go on: for 'tis by faith you have stood.

Now when I came into the Troad to spread there the Good News about the Christ, even though in the Lord's providence a door stood open before me,

for God is pleased to accept my christian labours, in favour both of those who are in a saving, and of those who are in a ruinous state:

But we have renounced the disgraceful things hidden because of shame; not walking in trickery or adulterating the word of God, but by stating the truth [openly and plainly], we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

we that are in this tabernacle do groan under the burden of it: not that we desire to be divested of it, but we desire to have our celestial body, that this mortal state may vanish into immortality.

now he that hath prepared us for this very state, is God, who hath given us the spirit as a pledge of it.

I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you ground for speaking well of me, that you may have something to say to those who are constantly prating about external privileges and not concerned about the state of the heart.

to this I am urg'd by the love I bear to Christ, persuaded as I am, that if one died for all, then were all in a dying state: and that he died for all,

that they who are in a state of life should not live at their own discretion, but to the service of him who died for them, and rose again.

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and staid with him fifteen days;

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.

Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is in a state of servitude, tho' he is to be lord of all;

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,

these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude.

When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:

till being united in a perfect belief, and acknowledgment of the son of God, we grow up to that full state of maturity required by Christ:

As to the state of my affairs, and health, Tychicus our dear brother, and faithful minister in the Lord, will very particularly acquaint you with them.

whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.

But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

But [we are different, because] our citizenship is in heaven. And from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

And the peace of God [that peace which reassures the heart, that peace] which transcends all understanding, [that peace which] stands guard over your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus [is yours].

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want:

You learned it from [our representative] Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf

who has deliver'd you from the state of darkness, and has translated you into the kingdom of his beloved son.

And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?

[In this state] there cannot be [such distinctions as] Greek [i.e., Gentile] and Jew; circumcised people and non-circumcised people; barbarian and Scythian [Note: These last two words refer to foreigners whose language was unintelligible and who were uncivilized heathens], or slave and free person; but Christ is all [that is important] and [He is] in all [of His people].

Let the peace of Christ [the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him] be the controlling factor in your hearts [deciding and settling questions that arise]. To this peace indeed you were called as members in one body [of believers]. And be thankful [to God always].

All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: