And they induced men to be saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

"I have seen, the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I have heard their groan; and I came down to pluck them out. And now come, I will send you into Egypt."

Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heavens, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, have you offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness?

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

But Peter said to him, May your silver perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.

And answering Simon said, You pray to the Lord for me that none of these things which you have spoken may come on me.

And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what will You have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.

And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evil things he has done to Your saints at Jerusalem.

And he was gazing at him, and becoming terrified, he said, What is it, lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your merciful deeds have come up for a memorial before God.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.

Therefore arise and go down and go with them without doubting, for I have sent them.

And going down to the men, those sent to him from Cornelius, Peter said, Behold, I am the one you are seeking. For what reason have you come?

Therefore I came without complaint, being sent for. I ask, then, for what reason have you sent for me.

And he said, Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your merciful deeds have been remembered before God.

Therefore I immediately sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded you by God.

Can anyone forbid water that these, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we, should not be baptized?

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, So, then, separate Barnabas and Saul to Me for the work to which I have called them.

And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if you have any word of comfort for the people, speak.

And when He had removed him, He raised up David to them to be their king; to whom He also witnessed and said, I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after My own heart, who shall fulfill all My will.

this God has fulfilled to us their children, raising up Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You."

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "I have set You to be a light of the nations, for salvation to the end of the earth."

And seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.

And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

Therefore my judgment is that we do not trouble those who have turned to God from among the nations,

Because we have heard that certain ones who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, Be circumcised and keep the law! (to whom we gave no such command);

men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will also announce to you the same things by word.

And some days afterward, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brothers in every city where we have announced the Word of the Lord, to see how they are holding to it.

And when she was baptized, she and her household, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. And she constrained us.

And the jailer spoke these words to Paul: The judges have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.

opening and setting forth that Christ must have suffered, and to have risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is Christ.

And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brothers before the city judges, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

For I am with you, and no one shall set on you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.

he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit is.

After these things were ended, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, Paul purposed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have come there, I must also see Rome.

For you have brought these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

Therefore if Demetrius and those craftsmen with him truly have a matter against anyone, the court days are kept, and there are proconsuls. Let them plead against one another.

and how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have shown you and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,

I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel.

Yea, you yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my needs, and to those who were with me.

I have shown you all things, that working in this way we ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

What is it therefore? At all events a multitude will come together, for they will hear that you have come.

Therefore do this, what we say to you: We have four men who have a vow on themselves;

taking them, be purified with them, and be at expense for them, so that they may shave their heads. And all may know that what they have been told about you is nothing, but you yourself also walk orderly and keep the Law.

For you shall be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring him into the fortress.

And the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.

And they came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

And laying hold of his hand, and drawing aside privately, the chiliarch asked him, What is it that you have to tell me?

And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they would inquire something more exactly about him.

But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.

So the chiliarch sent away the young man commanding, Tell no one that you have shown these things to me.

This man was taken by the Jews and would have been killed by them. Then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

he said, I will hear you when your accusers have also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.

And I have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

And in this I exercise myself, always to have a blameless conscience toward God and men.

These ought to be present before you and to accuse me, if they have anything against me.

Or else let these themselves say if they have found anything unjust in me while I stood before the sanhedrin,

And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and not to forbid anyone of his own to minister or come to him.

Defending himself, Paul said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything.

But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.

For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.

Then conferring with the sanhedrin, Festus answered, You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go.

To them I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before he being accused may have the accusers face to face, and have had freedom to answer for himself concerning the accusation.

about whom I have no certain thing to write of him to my lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, after examination is made, I might have something to write.

But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you;

And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar.

And a south wind blowing softly, thinking to have obtained their purpose, lifting anchor, they sailed along close beside Crete.

But there being much fasting, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, O men, being obedient to me you ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to have come by this harm and loss.

For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.

And they said to him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came declared or spoke anything evil of you.

For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;

always in my prayers, making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.

For when the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law unto themselves;

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law.

What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

"They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one."

"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") --before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through Him we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection;

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.

But thanks be to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.