asking favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, having provided an ambuscade to kill him on the way.

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

who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And Paul said, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

but they expected that he would swell up, or suddenly fall down dead. And waiting a long time, and seeing nothing extraordinary happen to him, they thought differently, and said, He is a god.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for it is known to us concerning this sect, that it is everywhere spoken against.

And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing,

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

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;

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.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker of the root and excellence of the olive,

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.

which none of the rulers of this life knew, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

You are already full, you are already enriched; you have reigned without us; and I would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Some are puffed up as though I would not come to you;

Remove the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, as you are unleavened; for Christ our passover was also sacrificed for us.

Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with a leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.

If the whole body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole was a hearing, where would be the smelling?

But if all were one member, where would be the body?

but their minds were blinded. For to this day in reading the old covenant the same vail remains, not taken away because it is taken away in Christ;

So that if any one is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

so that we requested Titus, as he before began, that he would complete also this charity with you.

[But I forbear,] that I may not seem as though I would terrify you by epistles.

I wish you would bear a little with my folly; and indeed do bear with me.

we did not yield to them by subjection, for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

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

And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, promised before to Abraham, In you shall all the nations be blessed.

Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means. For if a law had been given, able to give life, righteousness would really have been by the law;

What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes and have given them to me.

I would that they were cut off that disturb you.

that he would grant to you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man,

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

lie not one to another; put off the old man with his doings,

but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own children;

they shall perish, but thou shalt continue; and they shall all become old like a garment,

For if Joshua caused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

By saying new, he made the first old; but that which is ancient and weak is about to perish.

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

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,

and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly,

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

wild waves of the sea foaming with their own shame, wandering stars to which is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

And the great dragon, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, and who deceives all the world, was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast [to the earth] with him.

And it was given him to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that all who would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he took the dragon, which is the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,