that you should abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.

that they should seek God, if perhaps they might feel after and find him, and indeed he is not far from every one of us.

grieving most of all for the word which he said, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication.

Then Paul taking the men, on the following day being purified with them went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification till an offering should be offered for each one of them.

And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice saying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he should live.

the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that he might know for what reason they cried so against him.

and he commanded the centurion that Paul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid none of his friends to serve him.

Then Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he would go down there shortly;

And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I should like to hear the man also myself. And he said, To-morrow you shall hear him.

but preached first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and in all the country of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should change their minds and turn to God, performing works worthy of a change of mind.

Having obtained therefore help from God, I have continued to this day, testifying to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said should take place;

that the Christ should suffer, and that he first from the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and the nations.

AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by the name of Julius, of the cohort of Augustus.

and taking it out they used helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall on the shoal, letting down the mast they were driven in that condition.

And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no slight storm being upon us, at last all hope that we should be saved was taken away.

and fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out four anchors from the stern, they prayed for day.

for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.

For the promise to Abraham and his posterity that he should inherit the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin;

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained; and the rest were hardened,??8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear??o this day.

I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means; but by their fall the nations have salvation to excite them to emulation.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; as it is written, For this cause will I praise thee among nations, and sing to thy name.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

should I go to Spain I will come to you; for I hope, going by, to see you, and to be sent forward by you there, when first I am in part filled with you.

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

But, moreover, it is required of stewards that one should be found faithful.

But it is of little account to me that I should be judged by you or by man's day [judgment]; but I judge not myself;

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them,

But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

or does he speak entirely for our sakes? For our sakes, doubtless, it was written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and that he who threshes in hope should partake of it.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

But these things are examples for us, that we should not desire evil things, as they did.

Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled?

For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you.

For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged;

that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.

I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive edification.

and if it seems best that I should go, they shall go with me.

For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.

and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for them and rose again.

lest if the Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to say you, should be ashamed of this confidence.

For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

For if I shall wish to boast I shall not be foolish, for I will tell the truth. But I forbear, lest any one should think of me beyond what he sees or hears of me.

And that I might not be elated with my extraordinary revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me, that I should not be too much exalted.

We wish to God that you may do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that you may do good though we should be as reprobates.

and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

but on the contrary seeing that I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was of the circumcision,??8 for he that operated in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, operated also in me for the gentiles,??9 and knowing the grace given me, James and Cephas and John, who were manifest pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcision;

only [they wished] that we should remember the poor, which I was also forward to do.

What then? The law was added on account of transgressions, till the offspring should come to which the promise was made, being appointed by angels by the hand of a mediator.

as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him,

that we should be for a praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ;

for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.

that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

For indeed he was sick nigh to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

for in him [God] was well pleased that all fullness should dwell,

that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;

For this reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,

that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;

But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need that I should write to you;

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief;

a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,

And therefore, God sends them a power of delusion that they should believe a lie,

but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men,

I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputations;

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be fully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

that having been justified by his grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

whom I should like to retain for myself, that he might serve me for you in the bonds of the gospel,

We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].

But we see Jesus, made a little less than angels, on account of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste death for every [man].

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest? was it not to them that disobeyed?

Let us fear, therefore, lest at any time a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to come short.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.

It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.

for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

And why should I say more? For time would fail me to relate of Gideon and Barak, and Sampson and Jepthah, and David and Samuel and the prophets,

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;