The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.

"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"

Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.

Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"

But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."

But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"

For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."

Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.