Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

until there arose a different king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they did not understand.

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

But God turned, and abandoned them to serve the hosts of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Did not my hand make all these things?'

"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

You received the Law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it."

The crowds listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha (which when translated, means Dorcas). This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the countryside of Judea, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commanded us to proclaim to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

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

The angel said to him, "Get dressed and put on your sandals." He did so. He said to him, "Put on your cloak, and follow me."

And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

When she recognized Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

When Herod had sought for him, and did not find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

But God raised him from the dead,

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'

"Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'

Yet he did not leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness."

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

But Paul did not think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and did not go with them to do the work.

When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah."

Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the prominent women.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

Then all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio did not care about any of these things.

He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples did not allow him.

Some therefore shouted one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them did not know why they had come together.

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

"Those who were with me indeed saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

Paul said, "I did not know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'"

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he shouted in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged."

In the temple they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.

unless it is for this one thing that I shouted out standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today.'"

When therefore they had come together here, I did not delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

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

how the Messiah must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."

When it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

When they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to your fathers,

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Without being weakened in faith, he considered his own body as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.

In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba. Father."

He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

But they did not all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

But I say, did they not hear? Yes, truly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

But I ask, did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me. I was revealed to those who did not ask for me."

God did not reject his people, which he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he did not obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be. But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

for if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

For to this end Christ died, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

For even Christ did not please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,