And we sailed from there and came the next day across from Chios. And the next day we arrived at Samos, and we stayed at Trogyllium. And the next day we came to Miletus.

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church.

And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know how I was with you at all times, from the first day I arrived in Asia,

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

But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify fully the gospel of the grace of God.

Therefore I testify to you on this day that I am pure from the blood of all.

For I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

Also men shall arise from your own selves, speaking perverse things in order to draw disciples away after them.

And it happened when it was time to sail, we having been torn away from them, running direct we came to Cos; and on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

And finishing the voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. And greeting the brothers, we stayed with them one day.

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

Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing Mnason, a certain Cypriot, an old disciple with whom we were to lodge.

And as to the nations who believe, we joined in writing, judging them to observe no such things, except only that they keep themselves from both idol sacrifice, and blood, and a thing strangled, and from fornication.

And when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews who were from Asia, having seen him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

as also the high priest bears witness to me, and all the elderhood. And receiving letters from them to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus indeed to lead those being bound to Jerusalem, in order that they might be punished.

And they listened to him until this word, and then they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth! For it is not fitting that he should live.

Then immediately, those being about to examine him stood away from him. And the chiliarch also was afraid, fully knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.

On the next day, he desiring to know with certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from his bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to appear. And bringing Paul down, he set him among them.

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.

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.

And when the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that he was from Cilicia,

Among which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult.

Then entering the province, after three days Festus went from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove.

Truly, then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which was at first among my own nation at Jerusalem,

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

which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote.

In which pursuit also traveling to Damascus with authority and power of decision from the chief priests,

at midday, along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun; shining around me.

delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you

in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

Then having obtained help from God, I stand until this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen;

For the king understands about these things, to whom I speak, even being bold of speech. For I am persuaded that not any of these things are hidden from him, nothing. For the doing of this was not in a corner.

And boarding a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail alongside Asian places, we set sail, Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, being with us.

And setting sail from there, we sailed close to Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

And sailing slowly many days and with difficulty, coming abreast of Cnidus; the wind not allowing us; we sailed close to Crete, across from Salmone.

And the port not being fit to winter in, the most of them advised to set sail from there, if by any means they might be able to get to Phoenix to winter; which is a port of Crete, looking toward the southwest and northwest.

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.

But the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and lowering the boat into the sea, pretending to be about to cast out anchors from the prow,

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, kept them from their purpose and commanded those who could swim, to throw themselves overboard, to go out on the land.

And the rest went, some on boards and others on some of the things from the ship. And so it happened that all were saved on the land.

And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, being saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live.

Going around from there we arrived at Rhegium. And after one day a south wind coming on, we came to Puteoli on the second,

And the brothers from there hearing of us, they came to meet us as far as the market-place of Appius, and Three Taverns. Seeing them, thanking God, Paul took courage.

And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans

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

And they having appointed him a day, many came to him in his lodging; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them the things concerning Jesus, both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets, from morning until evening.

who was marked out the Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead;

to all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

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

For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;

but for us also to whom it is to be imputed, to the ones believing on Him who has raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is the type of Him who was to come;

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

For he who died has been justified from sin.

knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.

Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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.

Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.

For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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

For the married woman was bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband is dead, she is set free from the law of her husband.

So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.

So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.

O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.

that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

or "Who shall descend into the deep?"; that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?

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

Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

For the rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the bad. And do you desire to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it.

in power of miracles and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

For this cause I also have been greatly hindered from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from those disbelieving in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted by the saints;

Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed may be taken from your midst.

But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Even so, the Lord ordained those announcing the gospel to live from the gospel.

For though I am free from all, yet I have made myself servant to all, so that I might gain the more.

Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.