Even some officials of the province of Asia who were his friends sent him a message urging him not to risk his life in the theater.

Some of the crowd concluded it was because of Alexander, since the Jews had pushed him to the front. So Alexander motioned for silence and tried to make a defense before the people.

Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

So we located some disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit, they kept telling Paul not to go to Jerusalem,

Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us. They took us to the home of Mnason to be his guests. He was from Cyprus and had been an early disciple.

Immediately the tribune took some soldiers and officers and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

The tribune asked, "Oh, do you speak Greek? You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"

When Paul saw that some of them were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he shouted in the Council, "Brothers, I'm a Pharisee and a descendant of Pharisees. I'm on trial concerning the hope that the dead will be resurrected."

There was a great deal of shouting until some of the scribes who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and argued forcefully, "We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"

But some Jews from Asia were there, and they should be here before you to accuse me if they have anything against me.

He ordered the centurion to guard Paul but to let him have some freedom and not to keep any of his friends from caring for his needs.

Some days later, Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him talk about faith in Jesus the Messiah.

When it was decided that we should sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were transferred to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the emperor's division.

However, we will have to run aground on some island."

After he said this, he took some bread, thanked God in front of everyone, broke it, and began to eat.

The rest were to follow, some on planks and others on various pieces of the ship. In this way everyone got to shore safely.

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. After this, we arrived in Rome.

From morning until evening, he continued to explain the kingdom of God to them, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets. Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn't believe.

For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,

What if some of the Jews were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God's faithfulness, can it?

Or can we say as some people slander us by claiming that we say "Let's do evil that good may result"? They deserve to be condemned!

It is just as Isaiah predicted: "If the Lord of the Heavenly Armies had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have been compared to Gomorrah."

in the hope that I can make my people jealous and save some of them.

Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree,

However, on some points I have written to you rather boldly, both as a reminder to you and because of the grace given me by God

My brothers, some members of Chloe's family have made it clear to me that there are quarrels among you.

Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to evaluate you.

That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and by the Spirit of our God.

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are so accustomed to idolatry that when they eat food that has been offered to an idol, their conscience becomes contaminated because it is weak.

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing some distance away from them.

All at once some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Be courageous, son! Your sins are forgiven."

Then some of the scribes told themselves, "This fellow is blaspheming!"

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees told Jesus, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."

As he was sowing, some seeds fell along the path, and birds came and ate them up.

To the weak I became weak in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some of them.

Let's stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play."

Let's stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.

Let's stop putting the Lord to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.

You must stop complaining, as some of them were doing, and were annihilated by the destroyer.

Indeed, brothers, if I come to you speaking in foreign languages, what good will I be to you unless I speak to you in some revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching?

After that, he was seen by more than 500 brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died.

Now if we preach that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how can some of you keep claiming there is no resurrection of the dead?

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

But if anyone has caused grief, he didn't cause me any grief. To some extent I don't want to emphasize this too much it has affected all of you.

To some people we are a deadly fragrance, while to others we are a living fragrance. Who is qualified for this?

Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true.

Then some Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked,

They said, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

I tell all of you with certainty, some people standing here will not experience death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."

Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron,

I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

Granting that I have not been a burden to you, was I a clever schemer who trapped you by some trick?

Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

And it is he who gifted some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, and still others to be pastors and teachers,

Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.