and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door,

The fugitives from the persecution that had broken out over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message to none but Jews.

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

At Iconium in the same way, they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

In ages past he let all the heathen follow their own ways;

When they arrived there, they called the church together, and reported how God had worked with them, and how he had opened the way to faith for the heathen.

In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God,

Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling.

This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation."

The men who went with Paul took him all the way to Athens, and came back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin him as soon as possible.

"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

He spoke very confidently in the synagogue at first, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the Way of God to him more correctly.

But as some of them were obstinate and refused to believe, finding fault with the Way before the people, he left them, and withdrew the disciples, and held daily discussions in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

After these events, Paul, under the Spirit's guidance, resolved to go to Jerusalem, and to revisit Macedonia and Greece on the way. "After I have gone there," he said, "I must see Rome also."

Just at that time a great commotion arose about the Way.

where he stayed for three months. Just as he was going to sail for Syria, the Jews made a plot against him, and he made up his mind to return by way of Macedonia.

I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,

I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison,

But on my way, as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly about noon, a blaze of light flashed around me from heaven,

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,

Then Felix, who was somewhat well informed about the Way, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias, the colonel, comes down here, I will decide your case."

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

The way I lived from my youth up, spending my early life among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews,

The ship was caught by it and could not face the wind, so we gave way and let her run before it.

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.

They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

They do not know the way of peace.

But now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.

It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.

It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

That command gave sin an opening, and it led me to all sorts of covetous ways, for sin is lifeless without law.

In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings,

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

How inexhaustible God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge are! How unfathomable his decisions are, and how untraceable his ways!

Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

when I go to Spain I hope to see you on my way there, and to have you see me off on my journey, after I have enjoyed being with you for a while.

They determined to do it, and they really are indebted to them, for if the heathen have shared their spiritual blessings, they ought to do them a service in material ways.

So when I have finished this matter, and seen this contribution safely into their possession, I will start for Spain, and come to you on the way,

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

The right way for a man to think of us is as Christ's servants, and managers authorized to distribute the secret truths of God.

A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's.

But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.

So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.

It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.

He took the cup, too, after supper, in the same way, saying, "This cup is the new agreement ratified by my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me."

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

For in this way you can all preach one after another, as you are inspired to, so that everyone may be instructed and stimulated,

for the spirits of prophets will give way to prophets,

But let everything be done in a proper and orderly way.

I was going to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia and have you see me off for Judea.

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

So from that time on, I have estimated nobody at what he seemed to be outwardly; even though I once estimated Christ in that way, I no longer do so.

On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,

But I will tell you what I think about it. For this is the best way to deal with you, for you were the first not only to do anything about this, but to want to do anything, and that was last year.

Now finish doing it, so that your readiness to undertake it may be equaled by the way you finish it up, as well as your means permit.

I mean to have no one able to find any fault with the way I handle this munificence.

I send with them another brother of ours whose devotion we have often tested in many ways, which is now greater than ever, because of his perfect confidence in you.

You will grow rich in every way, so that through me you can show perfect liberality that will make men thank God for it.

The way you stand the test of this service must do honor to God, through your fidelity to what you profess as to the good news of Christ, and through the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others;

But my boasting will not be extravagant, nor exceed the limits God has allowed me, which reach all the way to you.

It is no strain for me to do this, as it might be for people who had never got so far, for I was the first to come all the way to you with the good news of the Christ.

And when I was with you and wanted money, I did not burden any of you, for when the brothers came from Macedonia they supplied what I needed. So I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

When I boast in this reckless way, I do not say what I am saying for the Lord, but as a fool would talk.

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,

I wish I could be with you now, and use a different tone with you, for I do not know which way to turn about you.

Bear one another's burdens, and in that way carry out the law of the Christ.

That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means,

Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men,

That is the way husbands ought to love their wives??s if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.

And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

But what difference does it make? All that matters is that, in one way or another, from false motives or honest ones, Christ is being made known; I am glad of that. Yes, and I expect to be glad,

Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

canceled the bond which stood against us, with its requirements, and put it out of our way when he nailed it to the cross.

Such people lose their connection with the head, from which the whole body through its ligaments and sinews must be governed and united if it is to grow in the divine way.

If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus open my way to you!

For disobedience is already secretly at work, but only until he who is now holding it in check is gotten out of the way.

And may the Lord of peace himself always give you peace in every way. The Lord be with you all.

This greeting is in my own hand, Paul's; it is the mark in every letter of mine. This is the way I write.

As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views

Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter.