Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

He is the stone that you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.

Joseph, a Levite, and a native of Cyprus, whom the apostles had named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement,

We and the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him are witnesses to these things."

but they could not meet his wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke.

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.

He is being entertained at the house of a tanner named Simon, which is close to the sea."

As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

" 'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and begone! For I am doing something in your times Which you will never believe even when it is related to you!' "

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been commended to God's favor for the work which they had now finished.

This quieted the whole meeting, and they listened while Barnabas and Paul told of the signs and wonders which God had done among the heathen through them.

And this agrees with the predictions of the prophets which say,

They are advocating practices which it is against the law for us as Romans to adopt or observe."

since he has fixed a day on which he will justly judge the world through a man whom he has appointed, and whom he has guaranteed to all men by raising him from the dead."

So he moved to the house of a devout proselyte named Titius Justus, which was next door to the synagogue.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

The whole city was thrown into confusion, and the people hurried together, and seized Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple, the gates of which were immediately shut.

When he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made a number of serious charges against him, which they could not substantiate.

I could not find that he had done anything for which he deserved death, but as he appealed to his Majesty I decided to send him to him.

the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.

But very soon a violent wind which they call a Northeaster rushed down from it.

Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.

which he promised long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

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.

I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

In reality, it is not I that do these things; it is sin, which has possession of me.

But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is not I that am acting, it is sin, which has possession of me.

but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.

For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,

Then what do we conclude? That heathen who were not striving for uprightness attained it, that is, an uprightness which was produced by faith;

God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

For if you were cut from a wild olive and unnaturally grafted upon a cultivated one, how much easier it will be to graft them upon the olive to which they properly belong!

"Or who has advanced anything to him, for which he will have to be repaid?"

But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."

But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine, in the service of the Lord, and one on whom you can depend, and he will help you to keep in mind my methods in the service of Christ Jesus, which I follow everywhere in every church.

Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

As to the matters of which you wrote me, it is an excellent thing for a man to remain unmarried.

Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

Everyone ought to remain in the station in which he was called.

Brothers, everyone must remain in fellowship with God in the station in which he was called.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

and drank the same supernatural drink??for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which attended them, and the rock was really Christ??5 still most of them disappointed God, for they were struck down in the desert.

Does not the consecrated cup which we bless mean that in drinking it we share in the blood of Christ? Does not the bread that we break mean that in eating it we share in the body of Christ?

and gave thanks for it and then broke it in pieces, saying, "This is my body which takes your place. Do this in memory of me."

which our presentable parts do not need. God has so adjusted the body and given such especial distinction to its inferior parts

Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

He comforts me in all my trouble, so that I can comfort people who are in any trouble with the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.

If I am in trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation, and if I am comforted, it is for the sake of the comfort which you experience when you steadfastly endure such sufferings as I also have to bear.

So deadly was the peril from which he saved me, as he will save me again! It is on him that I have set my hope that he will save me again.

and not only by his coming, but by the comfort you had given him, for he told me how you longed to see me, how sorry you were, and how you took my part, which made me happier still.

What is more, he has been appointed by the churches to travel with me in the interests of this generous undertaking, which I am superintending to honor the Lord and to show our readiness to help.

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.

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

And I know that this man?? do not know whether it was in the body or out of it, God knows??4 was caught up into Paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no human being can repeat.

For what is there in which the other churches had the better of you, except in the fact that I would not permit myself to be a burden to you? You must forgive me that wrong!

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

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.

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.

so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.

in the abundance of his mercy which he has lavished upon us.

which is the advance installment of our inheritance, so that we may get full possession of it, and praise his glory for it.

enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

which is his body, filled by him who fills everything everywhere.

in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

(which in past ages was not disclosed to mankind as fully as it has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets)

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

fulfilling the eternal purpose which God carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

You must not offend God's holy Spirit, with which you have been marked for the Day of Redemption.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him.

and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God.

for the sake of which I am an envoy, and in prison. Pray that, when I tell it, I may have the courage to speak as I ought.

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

But if living on here means having my labor bear fruit, I cannot tell which to choose.

so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.

that your hearts may be cheered. I want you to be united by love, and to have all the benefit of assured knowledge in coming to know Christ??3 that divine mystery in which all treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found.

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.

And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

for you know that it is from him that you are to receive that inheritance which is to be your reward. Think of Christ as the master you are working for.