saying, this fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

But if it be a question about words, and names, and your law, settle it yourselves; for I will be no judge of these matters.

If Demetrius therefore, and the artificers that are with him, have a charge against any one, the law-courts are open, and there are Roman proconsuls likewise: let them implead one another.

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the believing Jews, and they are all zealous for the law.

And they have heard of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews, who are among the Gentiles, to forsake the law of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after our customs.

and join in their expences, that they may shave their head: and that all may know, that there is nothing in what they have heard of thee; but thou thyself walkest according to the law.

this is the man that teaches all men every where against the people of the Jews, and the law, and this sacred place? and besides, hath brought Greeks too into the temple, and polluted this holy place.

---I am indeed a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, accurately instructed in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.

And one Ananias, a devout observer of the law, who had a good character from all the Jews that dwelt there,

Then said Paul to him, "God will smite thee, thou whited wall: dost thou sit to judge me according to the law, and contrary to the law commandest me to be smitten?"

But do not thou comply with them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and they are now ready, waiting for an order from thee.

and I found he was accused about questions of their law, but had no charge against him deserving death or bonds.

and attempting to profane the temple, we apprehended him, and would have judged him according to our law.

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way, which they call heresy, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law, and the prophets:

he answering in his own defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cesar have I committed any offence.

And as neither sun nor stars appeared for several days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.

And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery: to whom Paul went in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

And having appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he discoursed and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,)

Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.

Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision?

and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

Now we know that whatsoever the law saith,

it saith to those under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world obnoxious to the justice of God.

Wherefore by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before Him: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now, without the law, righteousness before God is manifested, being attested by the law and the prophets;

Where then is boasting? it is excluded: by what law? of works? no: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without the works of the law:

Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.

For the promise made to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of faith:

for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

Now the law made some entrance, that the offence might appear to abound; but where sin abounded, grace hath superabounded; that as sin had reigned in death,

For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, only so long as it liveth?

For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead by which we were bound, that we might serve God in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:

So that the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

And if I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good:

I find then a kind of law, that when I would do good, evil besets me.

For I delight in the law of God, as to the inward man:

but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.

The grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set me free from the law of sin and death.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:

Who shall lay any accusation against the elect of God? will God, who justifieth us?

I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,)

who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the form of divine worship, and the promises:

but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?

because they sought it not by faith, but by the works of the law, for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;

as it is written, "Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence:" and again, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

For Christ is the end of the law, for righteousness to every believer.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."

Be alike affected to each other: not aiming at high things, but accommodating yourselves to persons of low rank. Be not wise in your own conceit.

Owe no one any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth others hath fulfilled the law:

Love worketh no evil to our neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, not to lay a stumbling-block or scandal before a brother.

For no one can lay any other foundation, but that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ: and if any build upon this foundation gold,

But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

Now there is certainly a fault among you, that ye have law-suits with one another: why do ye not rather endure wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord:

or saith not the law the same also? for it is written in the law of Moses, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." Now doth God take care for oxen,

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; that is, to those, who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law:

and to those without the law as without the law, (not being without law to God, but under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

It is written in the law, "By men of another language, and by other lips, will I speak to this people, and even so they will not listen to me, saith the Lord."

Let your women be silent in your assemblies: for it is not permitted to them to speak, but they are to be in subjection, as the law saith.

the sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law:

But God, who comforteth those that are brought low, comforted us by the coming of Titus:

And the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lye not.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your substance, but your selves. For children are not expected to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

(Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

God forbid. And if I build again the same things which I demolished, I shew myself a transgressor: for I through the law am dead to the law,

I do not frustate the grace of God: for if righteousness be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

This only would I learn of you, Did ye receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

He therefore that imparteth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doth he it by the works of the law, or by the doctrine of faith?

For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.

And that by the law no one is justified before God is evident; for it is written "The just shall live by faith:"

now the law is not of faith, but saith, "The man that doth them, shall live in them."

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"