He started speaking courageously in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home with them and more accurately explained the way of God to him.

But as some of them grew harder and harder and refused to believe, actually criticizing The Way before the people, he left them, withdrew his disciples, and continued his discussions in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

In a way of just such power as this the Lord's message kept on spreading and prevailing.

After these events had been brought to a close, Paul under the guidance of the Spirit decided to pass through Macedonia and Greece on his way to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have gone there I must see Rome too."

Now just about that time a great commotion arose about The Way.

where he stayed three months. Just as he was about to sail for Syria, he changed his mind and returned by way of Macedonia, because a plot against him had been laid by the Jews.

And I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, because I am impelled by the Spirit to do so, though I am not aware what will befall me there,

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail,

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

But on my way, just before I reached Damascus, suddenly about noon a blaze of light from heaven flashed around me,

Since I could not see because of the dazzling sheen of that light, I was led by the hand by my companions and in this way I reached Damascus.

the colonel ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, and told them to examine him by flogging, in order that he might find out why they were crying out against him in such a way.

But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets,

Then Felix, who had a fairly clear conception of the principles involved in The Way, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias, the colonel, comes down here, I will carefully look into your case."

and begged the governor as a favor to have Paul come to Jerusalem, because they were plotting an ambush to kill him on the way.

While in this business I once was on my way to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests,

There we found some brothers, and they begged us to spend a week with them. In this way we finally reached Rome.

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

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.

They do not know the way of peace.

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.

And yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the way Adam had, against a positive command. For Adam was a figure of Him who was to come.

But now we have been freed from our relation to the law; we have ended our relation to that by which we once were held in bonds, so that we may serve in a new spiritual way and not in the old literalistic way.

So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way.

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,

For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.

For Christ has put an end to law as a way to right standing for everyone who puts his trust in Him.

For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.

But here is what the faith-way to right standing says, "Do not say to yourself, 'Who will go up to heaven?'" that is, to bring Christ down;

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head!

Then let us stop criticizing one another; instead, do this, determine to stop putting stumbling blocks or hindrances in your brother's way.

whoever in this way continues serving Christ is well-pleasing to God and approved by men.

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit. So I have completed the telling of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

when I make my trip to Spain, I certainly hope to see you on my way there and to be helped forward by you, after I have enjoyed being with you awhile.

But just now I am on my way to Jerusalem to help God's people.

So, after I have finished this matter and made sure of the results of this contribution for them, I shall come by you on my way to Spain.

But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.

In this way my testimony to Christ has been confirmed in your experience,

For consider, brothers, the way God called you; that not many of you, in accordance with human standards, were wise, not many influential, not many of high birth.

These truths we are setting forth, not in words that man's wisdom teaches but in words that the Spirit teaches, in this way fitting spiritual words to spiritual truths.

The wife does not have the right to do as she pleases with her own body; the husband has his right to it. In the same way the husband does not have the right to do as he pleases with his own body; the wife has her right to it.

But I say this by way of concession, not by way of command.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated by union with his wife and the unbelieving wife by union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but in this way they are consecrated.

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

Now if in such a way you sin against your brothers and wound their overscrupulous consciences, you are actually sinning against Christ.

I am not saying this only by way of human illustrations, am I? Does not the law say so too?

Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.

So that is the way I run, with no uncertainty as to winning. That is the way I box, not like one that punches the air.

Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.

No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.

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

So whoever eats the bread and drinks from the Lord's cup in an unworthy way is guilty of sinning against the Lord's body and blood.

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

But you must earnestly continue to cultivate your higher spiritual gifts. And yet I will show you a way that is better by far:

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 laid aside my childish ways.

For in this way you can all, one after another, speak your prophetic message, so that all may learn and be encouraged,

Everything must always be done in a proper and orderly way.

This is the way the Scripture puts it too, "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit.

that is, to go by you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia, and have you send me on to Judea.

If the meaning of the good news I preach is covered up at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.

To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.

I send with them another brother of ours, whom I have often in many ways tested and found to be enthusiastic, but now he is more enthusiastic than ever, because of his great confidence in you.

Now this is the way it is: Whoever sows sparingly will reap sparingly too, but whoever sows bountifully will reap bountifully too.

In every way you will grow richer and richer so as to give with perfect liberality, which will through me result in thanksgiving to God for it.

and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

But when I talk in this boastful confidence, I am not talking in accordance with the way the Lord talked, but just as a fool talks.

I wish I could be with you right now and change the tone of my speech, for I do not know which way to turn in your case.

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

You were running beautifully! Who was it that cut into your way and kept you from obeying the truth?

I almost wish that these men who are upsetting you would go all the way, and have themselves mutilated.

Practice bearing one another's burdens, and in this way carry out the law of Christ.

But this is not the way you have learned what Christ means,

to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

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,

And I have a right to think this way about you, because I always have you in my heart, whether shut up in prison or out defending and vindicating the good news, for you are sharers with me of God's favor.

in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,

What difference then does it make? In one way or another, whether in pretense or in sincerity, Christ is being preached, and that is the thing that makes me glad; yes, more too, I will continue to be glad of it,

canceled the note that stood against us, with its requirements, and has put it out of our way by nailing it to the cross.

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

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always keep looking for ways to show kindness to one another and everybody.

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but only until he who is holding it back has been gotten out of the way.

and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.

As I begged you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, I still beg you to stay on in Ephesus to warn certain teachers

for in this way it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

in this way amassing for themselves the riches that forever endure in the life to come, so that at last they may grasp the life that is life indeed.

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets,

So I was indignant with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have never come to know my ways.'

but day by day, as long as "Today" shall last, continue to encourage one another, so that not one of you may be hardened by sin's deceiving ways,

(6:19) where Jesus has blazed the way for us and became a High Priest with the rank of Melchizedek.

With these arrangements completed in this way, the priests in conducting their official services regularly go into the outer part of the tent of worship;

But when Christ came as the High Priest of good things that have already taken place, He went by way of that greater and more perfect tent of worship, not made by human hands, that is, not belonging to this material creation,

In the same way he sprinkled with blood the tent and all the utensils of the priestly service.

the new and living way which He opened for us, through the curtain, that is, His physical nature,

Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear;

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his evil ways will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a multitude of sins.