And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I stepped in Asia, how I became with you all the time,

How I kept back nothing of these things that are beneficial, not to inform you, and to teach you in public, and from house to house,

except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

But I make nothing of the matter, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so as to fully complete my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the good-news of the grace of God.

Therefore I solemnly declare to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men.

For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

And when it came to pass to launch us, after being drawn away from them, after going a straight course, we came to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

And when we finished the voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. And having greeted the brothers, we remained with them one day.

And as we remained more days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

And also the disciples from Caesarea went together with us, bringing a certain Mnason, a Cypriot, an old disciple with whom we would lodge.

And they were informed about thee, that thou teach all the Jews throughout the nations desertion from Moses, telling them not to circumcise the children nor to walk by the customs.

And about the Gentiles who have believed, we sent word, having decided for them to keep no such thing, except for them to guard against what is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

And when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and threw hands on him,

As also the high priest testifies about me, and all the senior council, from whom also having received letters to the brothers in Damascus, I was going to bring bound even those who were there to Jerusalem so that they might be pun

And there happened to me, while going and approaching Damascus about noon, suddenly to flash forth from heaven a great light around me.

And as I was not seeing from the splendor of that light, I came into Damascus, being led by hand by those who accompanied me.

And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous man, and to hear a voice from his mouth,

And they heard him until this word. And they lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a man from the earth, for he is not fit to live.

Straightway therefore those who were about to examine him withdrew from him. And the chief captain was also afraid when he learned that he was a Roman, and because he was who bound him.

But on the morrow, wanting to know the certainty of why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to come. And having brought Paul down, he set him before them.

And a great conflict having developed, the chief captain, having been alarmed lest Paul might be torn apart by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from the midst of them, and bring him into the fort.

after writing a letter containing this form:

And the governor having read it, and having questioned from what province he was, and having found out that he was from Cilicia,

from whom thou will be able, having examined him, to learn about all these things of which we accuse him.

thou being able to learn that there are for me not more than twelve days from which I went up to worship in Jerusalem.

during which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd or with a tumult,

Festus therefore having entered into the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

And when he arrived, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around, bringing many and serious accusations against Paul, which they could not prove,

Indeed therefore, my manner of life from youth, having developed from the beginning among my nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know,

having known me previously from the beginning, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

which also I did at Jerusalem. And I locked up many of the sanctified in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were killed, I gave a vote against them.

at midday, O king, I saw on the road a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, which shone around me and those who went with me.

delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee,

to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.

Having therefore experienced the help from God, I stand to this day solemnly declaring both to small and great, saying nothing apart from what both the prophets and Moses said was going to happen,

that the suffering Christ, since first from a resurrection of the dead, is going to proclaim light to our people and to the nations.

For the king knows about these things, before whom I also speak boldly. For I am convinced not any of these things, nothing, to be hidden from him. For this was not done in a corner.

And Paul said, I ever pray to God, both by little and by much, not only thee, but also all who hear me this day, to become such kind as I also am, apart from these bonds.

And having launched from there, we sailed under lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

And since the haven was inconvenient to winter in, the majority gave counsel to launch from there also, if somehow they might be able, after arriving at Phoenix, to winter in a haven of Crete, looking toward southwest and northwest

And being long without food, then Paul, who stood in the midst of them, said, Ye truly ought, O men, to have complied with me, not to launch from Crete, and gain this damage and loss.

And now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will not be one loss of life from you, except of the ship.

And fearing lest somehow we might falloff on rough places, having cast off four anchors from the stern, they prayed for day to develop.

And since the sailors sought to flee out of the ship, and having lowered the skiff into the sea in pretense as going to stretch out anchors from the bow,

Therefore I encourage you to take of food, for this is for your safety. For not a hair will fall from the head of one of you.

And having cast off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time unfastening the bands of the rudders. And having hoisted up the foresail to the wind, they held firm for the shore.

But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, prevented them from their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, having first jumped out, to go to the land,

and the remaining, some on boards, and some on any of the things from the ship. And so it came to pass for all to be saved to the land.

And Paul having gathered a quantity of sticks, and having placed them on the fire, a viper having come out from the heat, it fastened on his hand.

And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, Justice did not allow to live.

from where having made a circuit, we arrived at Rhegium. And after one day, wind from the south having developed, we came a second day to Puteoli,

And from there the brothers, who heard these things about us, came for a meeting with us as far as Appius Forum and The Three Taverns, whom, when Paul saw, having expressed thanks to God, he took courage.

And they said to him, We neither received letters from Judea about thee, nor did any of the brothers who came report or speak anything bad about thee.

But we think it worthy to hear from thee what thou think. For indeed about this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.

And having appointed a day for him, more came to him into his lodging, to whom he expounded, solemnly testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from m

concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh.

He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead--Jesus Christ our Lord--

To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, to the called, to the sanctified: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.

but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

(in the forbearance of God), for proof of his justice at the present time, for him to be righteous, and who makes the man from Jesus' faith righteous.

since God is one, who will make the man of circumcision righteous from faith, and the man of uncircumcision through faith.

For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God.

For if those from law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless.

Because of this it is from faith, so that it is according to grace, in order for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to the seed from the law, but also to the seed from the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all

but also because of us to whom it is going to be imputed, to those who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Much more then, now having been made righteous by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath through him.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the coming man.

And the gift is not as through one man who sinned, for indeed the judgment from one man was for condemnation, but the gift from many offenses is for righteousness.

We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.

For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin.

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.

But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered.

And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.

For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

Because the creation itself will also be freed from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or restriction, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

of whom are the fathers, and from whom (according to flesh) is the Christ, God who is over all is blessed into the ages. Truly.

But it is not as that the word of God has failed. For all those from Israel, these are not Israel,

And not only so, but also Rebecca having bed from one man, our father Isaac

(for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls),

What will we say then? Is there injustice from God? May it not happen!

Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?