The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!"

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

When they didn't 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,

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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

You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.

He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."

"I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." He commanded that he be kept in Herod's palace.

But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

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

Agrippa said to Festus, "I also would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."

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

especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads."

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.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

But to the married I command -- not I, but the Lord -- that the wife not leave her husband

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

But to the rest I -- not the Lord -- say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world -- how she may please her husband.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman."

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.