if you will move it then to the tribune in the name of the Sanhedrim, to send him here to-morrow, under colour of examining his affair with more solemnity, we shall take care to dispatch him, and make a short end of his journey."

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.

And when he had read the letter, he inquired to what province he belonged. And learning that he was from Cilicia, he said: I will hear you when your accusers also have come. And he ordered him to be kept under guard in Herod's palace.

I myself will hear thee in full, said he, whensoever, thine accusers also, are come; and gave orders that, in the palace of Herod, he should be kept under guard.

However, so that I will not burden you any further, I beg you in your graciousness to give us a brief hearing.

commanding his accusers to come to you.] By examining him yourself you will be able to discern all these things we are accusing him of.”

But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:

And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

And Felix deferred them, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, - saying - As soon as, Lysias the captain, hath come down, I will give judgment as to your affairs, -

And, as he was reasoning of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming greatly afraid, answered - For the present, be going thy way, and, when I find an opportunity, I will send for thee, -

at the same time also hoping that money will be given to him by Paul; therefore indeed the more frequently sending for him, he conversed with him.

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

If then I am a criminal and have committed any crime that deserves the death penalty, I will not try to avoid being put to death. But if none of the charges I have been accused of are true, [then] no one has the right to turn me over [to the authorities]. I make my appeal to Caesar."

After Festus conferred with his council, he replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”

Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.”

“Tomorrow you will hear him,” he replied.

I have nothing reliable to write our Sovereign about him, so I have brought him to all of you, and especially to you, King Agrippa, so that I will have something to write after he is cross-examined.

they can testify, if they will, that I early profess'd myself a Pharisee, a member of the most rigorous sect of our religion:

And now I am standing [here], being judged because [I believe that] God will fulfill the hope He promised to our forefathers.

In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns.

But rise and stand upon thy feet; for, to this end, have I appeared unto thee, - To appoint thee an attendant and a witness, both of the things as to which thou hast seen me, and of those as to which I will appear unto thee:

I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them

to open their eyes [to the truth] so they will turn from darkness to light and from the power [i.e., the influence] of Satan to God. [Then] they can receive the forgiveness of sins and the inheritance [of never ending life], along with [all] those who are set apart [for God] by trusting in Me.'

And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.

And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.

Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.

you must be brought before Cesar: and upon your account, the whole company now with you, will God preserve.

Therefore, take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

But we will be sent on to a certain island.

But Paul said to the captain and his men, If you do not keep these men in the ship, you will not be safe.

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

When the natives saw the reptile hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Beyond a doubt this man is a murderer, for though he has been rescued from the sea, justice will not let him live."

But we will hear of thee what thou thinkest. For we have heard of this sect, that everywhere it is spoken against."

saying - Go thy way unto this people, and say - Ye shall, surely hear, and yet will in nowise understand. And, surely see, and yet will in nowise perceive;

Be it, known unto you, therefore, that, unto the nations, hath been sent forth this salvation of God: they, will also hear.

At all times in my prayers, - making supplication - if, by some means, even now, at any time, I may have a way opened, in the will of God, to come unto you;

For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you;

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

Or do you have no regard for the wealth of His kindness and tolerance and patience [in withholding His wrath]? Are you [actually] unaware or ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness leads you to repentance [that is, to change your inner self, your old way of thinking—seek His purpose for your life]?

But in your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when the justice of God's judgments will be uncovered.

Who will render unto each one according to his works: -

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

But glory, honor, and peace will come to everyone who practices doing good, the Jew first and then the Greek;

All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

for they show that the deeds the law demands are written on their hearts, because their consciences will testify for them, and their inner thoughts will either accuse or defend them,

on the day when God through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the good news I preach, will judge the secrets people have kept.

But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,

And art taking note of his will, and testing the things that differ - when receiving oral instruction out of the law,

train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law??21 why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself?

Will you warn men against adultery, and yet practice it yourself? Will you pretend to detest idols, and yet rob their temples?

Will you boast of the Law and yet dishonor God by breaking it?

Circumcision will help you only if you observe the Law; but if you are a lawbreaker, you might as well be uncircumcised.

Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision?

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, brought about by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people.

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

Is God the God of the Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Surely of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God who will justify the circumcision by faith,

If, at all events, God is one, who will declare righteous - the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through their faith.

What then will we say Abraham, our father according to flesh, to have found?

Happy, the man whose sin the Lord will in nowise reckon.

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.

but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

through whom also we have had admission into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which God will confer.

now hope will not deceive us, because the love of God is diffused thro' our hearts, by the holy spirit which is given to us;

For, scarcely in behalf of a righteous man, will one die, - in behalf of the good man indeed, peradventure one even dareth to die;

Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?

May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

for we know that Christ, who once was raised from the dead, will never die again; death has no more power over Him.

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

Do you not know that when you continually offer yourselves to someone to do his will, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, either [slaves] of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness (right standing with God)?

And having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness [of conformity to God’s will and purpose].

I will speak grossly because of the infirmity of your flesh. As ye have given your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, from iniquity unto iniquity: even so now give your members servants unto righteousness, that ye may be sanctified.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.