So the soldiers took Paul, as they were bid, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

"I will hear your case when your accusers also are come." And he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

So Paul was sent for, and then Tertullus began to accuse him, saying. "As it is owing to your excellency that we enjoy profound peace, and that the state of this nation,

"Or let these men themselves say what fault they found, when I appeared before the Sanhedrin!

"I am standing before Caesar's tribunal," answered Paul, "where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.

And while they tarried many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "whom Felix left a prisoner.

"So when a number of them came together here, I made no delay, but the next day took my seat in the tribunal, and commanded the man to be brought.

So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and took their places in the hall of audience, accompanied by the tribunes and men of high rank in the city. At the command of Festus Paul was brought in.

"King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

"Now I have nothing very definite to tell our sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, in order that, after examination, I may have something to write.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." So Paul stretched forth his hand and began to make his defense.

"when at noon, as I journeyed, O King, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and around those who journeyed with me.

"'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

"So then, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision;

We embarked in a ship of Adramyttium which was about to sail to the ports of the province of Asia, and put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, accompanied us.

Putting to sea from thence we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us;

By this time the season was far advanced, and sailing had become dangerous (for the Autumn Fast was past); so Paul began to warn them.

and as the harbor was ill adapted for winter quarters, the majority advised putting out to sea from thence, to see whether they could get to Phoenix and winter there, a harbor on the coast of Crete facing northeast and southeast.

Then we ran under the lee of a little island named Claudia, where with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat.

and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship's tackling overboard.

When for a long time they had been without food, Paul stood among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and so have spared yourselves this injury and loss.

"So take courage, men! I believe God, I believe that things will turn out exactly as it has been told me.

It was now the fourteenth night, and we were drifting through the Adriatic Sea when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near to some land.

So they sounded and found twenty fathoms; and after a little they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

And when the sailors were trying to flee from the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea under pretext of laying anchors from the bow,

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off.

"So I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety. For there shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you."

When he had so said and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God before them all, and broke it and began to eat.

When it was day they tried in vain to recognize the land, but they spied an inlet with a sandy beach, and they began conferring to see whether they could drive the ship into it.

They cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, and unloosing at the same time the ropes that tied the rudders, they hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.

and that the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other bits of wreckage. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to the land.

When the natives saw the reptile hanging on his hand, they began saying to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet justice does not allow him to live."

It happened however that the father of Publius was lying ill of fever and dysentery. So Paul went to see him and prayed and laid his hands on him and healed him.

From there the brothers, when they heard about us, came out to meet us as far as the Appian Forum and the Three Taverns. When Paul saw them he thanked God and took courage.

This is the reason why I begged you to see and speak with me. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."

So they arranged a day with him and came to him in his lodgings in great numbers. He expounded the matter to them; testifying to the Kingdom of God, and persuading them about Jesus, from morning till evening, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

Unable to agree among themselves, they began to go, but not before Paul had spoken a word to them, saying. "Right well did the Holy Spirit say to your ancestors, through the prophet Isaiah.

"Go to the people and tell them, You will hear and hear, and by no means understand; And will look, and by no means see.

For this people's heart is grown obtuse, Their ears are heavy of hearing, Their eyes have they closed, Lest they should see with their eyes And hear with their ears, Lest they understand with their heart, And turn again, and heal them.

After this Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house, and used to receive all who came to see him.

this gospel is concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of David's posterity in respect of his bodily nature,

It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

among whom you also are called to be Jesus Christ's.

For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established;

that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.

So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

FOR I AM PROUD OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS GOD'S SAVING POWER FOR EVERY ONE WHO BELIEVES. FOR THE JEW FIRST, AND ALSO FOR THE GENTILE.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

This is so because that which may be known of God is manifest among them; for God has made it manifest to them.

For ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his everlasting power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made. So they have no excuse.

So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;

And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision.

But if our unrighteousness thus brings out God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous?? speak after the manner of men??hen he inflicts his anger on us?

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

I say, at this present time; that he himself might be just, and yet the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

What then shall we say of Abraham, our ancestor in the flesh?

For what does Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was set down to his account as righteousness.

Is this blessing, then, for the circumcised alone? or for the uncircumcised also? Abraham's faith, I say, was imputed to him for righteousness.

and he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the faith-righteousness which he had while he was in uncircumcision; in order that he might be the father of all who believe, even though they are uncircumcised; so that righteousness might be imputed to them.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

For Abraham, hoping against hope, had faith to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So numberless shall your descendants be.

Though he was about a hundred years old, his faith did not fail him when he regarded his own body, now as good as dead. and remembered Sarah's barrenness.

And so his faith was reckoned to him for righteousness.

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved in his life.

Thus, then, sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death and so death spread to all men, because all had sinned.

For prior to the Law, sin actually existed in the world, but sin was not set down to man's account when there was no law.

Nevertheless, from Adam to Moses death reigned as king, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression. Now Adam is a type of Him who was to come.

It follows then, as through the transgression of one man came condemnation unto all men, even so through the act of righteousness of One came acquittal and life to all men.

For just as through the disobedience of one man the rest were made sinners; even so by the obedience of One shall all the rest be made righteous.

Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,??urs!

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin??7 for he who is dead is set free from sin.

Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thralldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thralldom to the law of sin.

For only those are sons of God who are led by God's Spirit.

All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest of a great brotherhood;

What shall we say then, to these things? If God be for us, Who can be against us?

Who shall accuse God's elect? God acquits them;

It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;

they are not all children of Abraham because they are Abraham's descendants. The promise was, In Isaac shall thy posterity be called.

And not only so, but when Rebecca was pregnant by our forefather Isaac, though one man was the father of both children,

What shall we say then? that there is injustice with God? No indeed.