nor is He served by human hands as though He were in need of anything, for He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

Some of the public officials in Asia, who were friendly to him, also sent word to him, begging him not to risk himself in the theatre.

So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

Festus answered that Paul was being kept in custody in Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.

Then Festus, as he wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, said to Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges before me there?"

I answered them that it was not the Roman custom to give up anyone for punishment until the accused met his accusers face to face and had an opportunity to defend himself against their accusations.

But I found that he had not done anything for which he deserved to die; however, as he has himself appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him up.

When we did arrive at Rome, Paul was granted permission to live by himself -- excepting a soldier to guard him.

because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.

But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.

God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made.

yes, to demonstrate His justice at the present time, to prove that He is right Himself, and that He considers right with Himself the man who has faith in Jesus.

since there is but one God, who will consider the Jews in right standing with Himself, only on condition of their faith, and the heathen peoples on the same condition.

but the man who does no work, but simply puts his faith in Him who brings the ungodly into right standing with Himself, has his faith credited to him as right standing.

So David, too, describes the happiness of the man to whom God credits right standing with Himself, without the things he does having anything to do with it:

as the Scripture says, "I have made you the father of many nations." That is, the promise is in force in the sight of God in whom he put his faith, the God who can bring the dead to life and can call to Himself the things that do not exist as though they did.

For if by one man's offense death reigned through that one, to a much greater degree will those who continue to receive the overflow of His unmerited favor and His gift of right standing with Himself, reign in real life through One, Jesus Christ.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirits that we are God's children;

In the same way the Spirit, too, is helping us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself pleads for us with unspeakable yearnings,

and those whom He marked off as His own He also calls; and those whom He calls He brings into right standing with Himself; those whom He brings into right standing with Himself He also glorifies.

Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

so that anyone who resists the authorities sets himself against what God has established, and those who set themselves against Him will get the penalty due them.

For none of us can live alone by himself, and none of us can die alone by himself;

So each of us must give an account of himself to God.

On your part, you must exercise your faith by the standard of yourself in the sight of God. Happy is the man who need not condemn himself for doing the thing that he approves.

But the man who has misgivings about eating, if he then eats, has already condemned himself by so doing, because he did not follow his faith, and any action that does not follow one's faith is a sin.

Christ certainly did not please Himself; instead, as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me."

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

But the spiritual man appreciates everything, and yet he himself is not really appreciated by anybody.

for no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ Himself.

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.

For although my conscience does not accuse me, yet I am not entirely vindicated by that. It is the Lord Himself who must examine me.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ Himself? Then may I take away parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!

To the rest of the people I myself would say -- though the Lord Himself has said nothing about it -- if a Christian has a wife that is not a believer and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her;

For the account that I passed on to you I myself received from the Lord Himself, that the Lord Jesus on the night He was betrayed took a loaf of bread

A man, then, must examine himself, and only in this way should he eat any of the bread and drink from the cup.

For whoever eats and drinks without recognizing His body, eats and drinks a judgment on himself.

Whoever speaks in ecstasy builds up himself alone, but whoever prophesies builds up the congregation too.

But if there is no one to explain it, let him keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and God alone.

for He has put everything in subjection under His feet. But when He says that everything has been put in subjection to Him, He Himself is evidently excepted who put it all in subjection to Him.

And when everything has been put in subjection to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has put everything in subjection to Him, so that God may be everything to everybody.

Now it is God Himself who has put the finishing touches on me for this change, because He has given me the Spirit as the first installment of future bliss.

This has all originated with God, for He through Christ has reconciled me to Himself and has given me the ministry of reconciliation.

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

You look at me and measure me by outward appearances. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to Christ, let him have another thought about himself, that just as he belongs to Christ, so do I.

For it is not the man who keeps on recommending himself who is really approved, but it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

who gave Himself for our sins, to save us from the present wicked world in accordance with the will of our God and Father;

I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed."

but still you did not scorn the test my illness made of you, nor did you spurn me for it; on the contrary, you welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

I again insist that if any man lets himself be circumcised, he is under obligation to obey the whole law.

For if anybody thinks he is somebody when really he is nobody, he deceives himself.

Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.

For He Himself is our peace, He is the one who has made us both into one body and has broken down the barrier that kept us apart;

through His human nature He has put a stop to the hostility between us, namely, the law with its commands and decrees, in order to create one new humanity out of the two parties and so make peace through union with Himself, and in one body

for you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself the cornerstone.

But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

that He might present the church to Himself as a splendid bride without a blot or wrinkle or anything like it, but to be consecrated and faultless.

This is the way married men ought to love their wives, as they do their own bodies. The married man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

Therefore, a man must leave his father and mother and so perfectly unite himself to his wife that the two shall be one.

But each one of you married men must love his wife as he loves himself, and the married woman, too, must respect her husband.

Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.

for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.

He will so change the outward appearance of our lowly bodies that they will be like His glorious body, by the exertion of the power He has to subject everything to Himself.

and that through Him He might reconcile to Himself all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through the blood He shed On His cross.

that their hearts may be encouraged, by having been knit together in love and by having atoned to the full assurance of understanding, so that they may finally reach the fullest knowledge of the open secret, Christ Himself,

Now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus guide my way to you!

For the Lord Himself, at the summons sounded by the archangel's call and by God's trumpet, will come down from heaven, and first of all the dead in union with Christ will rise,

May God Himself, who gave you peace, consecrate your whole being. May you be safely kept, spirit, soul, and body, so as to be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back.

the one who keeps up his opposition and so far exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, that he actually takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and graciously given us encouragement that is eternal, and a hope that is well-founded,

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was testified to at the proper time,

No soldier ever allows himself to be involved in the business affairs of life, so that he may please the officer who enlisted him.

If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot prove false to Himself."

So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be an instrument for honorable uses, consecrated, useful for the Master, and ready for any good service.

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

thus proving Himself to be as much superior to angels as the title He has inherited is superior to theirs.

how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

Since then the children mentioned share our mortal nature, He too took on Himself a full share of the same, in order that He by His death might put a stop to the power of him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

For inasmuch as He has suffered Himself by being tempted, He is able to give immediate help to any that are tempted.

For whoever is admitted into God's rest himself has rested from his works, just as God did.

Such a one is capable of dealing tenderly with the ignorant and erring ones, since he himself is subject to weakness,

and so is obliged to offer sin-offerings, not only for the people but for himself as well.

And no one takes this honor upon himself but is called to it by God, as Aaron was.

So Christ too did not take upon Himself the glory of being appointed High Priest, but it was God who said: "You are my Son; I have today become your Father,"

For when God made His promise to Abraham, He took an oath by Himself, since He had no one greater by whom He could take it,

but He, on the other hand, because He Himself lives on forever, enjoys the only priesthood that has no successors in office.

Therefore, because He Himself lives always to intercede for them always, He is able to save completely any and all who come to God through Him.

who does not need, as did the Levitical priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this latter is just what He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

but into the second or inner part nobody but the high priest may go, and he only once a year, and never without blood which he offers for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.

how much more surely will the blood of Christ, who with an eternal Spirit gave Himself a spotless offering to God, purify your consciences from works that mean mere death, to serve the ever living God?

And He does not enter to offer Himself over and over again, as the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own;

You must have a turn of mind that is free from avarice; you must be content with what you have, for God Himself has said, "I will never fail you, I will never forsake you."

perfectly fit you to do His will, He Himself, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing through you what is pleasing to Him. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

But the man who looks at the flawless law that makes men free, and keeps on looking, proving himself to be, not a forgetful hearer but an actual doer of what it requires, will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious worship is worthless.