and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion, saying that things which are made by hands are not gods.

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

crying, Men of Israel, help; this is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and besides he has brought Greeks into the temple, and defiled this holy place.

And there was a great cry, and the scribes of the party of the Pharisees rising up contended, saying, We find no evil in this man; but [what] if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?

And Paul calling one of the centurions, said, Lead this young man to the chiliarch, for he has something to tell him.

He therefore took him and led him to the chiliarch, and said, Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to lead this young man to you, who has something to tell you.

to whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the accused has the accusers face to face, and is allowed an opportunity to defend himself against the accusation.

And when Paul had said these words, Festus said with a loud voice, You are mad, Paul; much learning has driven you to madness.

and departing they conversed with each other, saying, This man has done nothing deserving death or bonds.

and said, Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar, and behold, God has given you all that sail with you.

Wherefore, men, be of good courage; for I believe God, that it will be as he has told me;

And when the barbarians saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is undoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not permitted to live.

And they said to him, We have neither received letters concerning you from Judea, nor has any one of the brothers come and reported or told any evil of you.

for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.

because what can be known of God is manifest among them; for God has manifested [himself] to them.

BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.

ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives?

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.

who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel;

He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will?

or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel?

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,

For God has concluded all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all.

For I say through the grace given me, to every one among you, not to be higher-minded than he ought to be, but to think soberly, as God has distributed to each the measure of faith.

Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law.

For one has faith to eat all things, but he that is weak eats vegetables.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats; for God has accepted him.

for I dare not to speak of what Christ has not performed by me for the obedience of the nations, by word and work,

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.

For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.

Where is the wise? where the scribe? where the disputer of this life? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption,

but as it is written, An eye has not seen, an ear has not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those that love him;

but God has revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

If any one's work continues which he has built, he shall receive a reward;

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed should be removed from among you.

For I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged as present him that has so done this,

The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her;

and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband.

But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace.

Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches.

And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well.

So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.

For no trial has befallen you but what is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will order the event, that you may be able to endure.

But if any one says to you, This has been offered to an idol, eat not for his sake that informed you, and for conscience' sake.

For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ;

But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body, as he pleased.

for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking,

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

when the perfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away.

What then is [to be done] brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a revelation, has an interpretation; let all things be done for edification.

But if there is not a resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised;

and if Christ has not been raised, then both our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain;

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of those that have slept.

For he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet.

And when this destructible has put on indestructibleness, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall the word be accomplished that is written; Death was swallowed up in victory.

On the first day of the week let each one of you lay aside by himself in store as God has prospered him, that there may be no collections made when I come.

But concerning Apollos the brother, I have exhorted him much to come to you with the brothers; but he was entirely indisposed to come now, but he will come when he has a convenient time.

And he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God,

who has also sealed us and given us the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

But if any one has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part, that I may not be hard upon you, [has grieved you] all,

But whom you favor I also will favor; for what favor I have shown, if I have shown any favor, has been for your sakes, in the presence of Christ,

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

For if that which has passed away was with glory, much more will that which continues be in glory.

and not as Moses put a vail on his face, that the children of Israel might not see to the end of that which has passed away;

in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine.

For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And he that has made us for this is God, who has given us the pledge of the Spirit.

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that each one may receive through the body for what he has done, whether it is good or evil.

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,

to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their offenses, and has given to us the word of reconciliation.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation has righteousness with wickedness? or what communion has light with darkness?

and what agreement has Christ with Beliar, or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

For if there is a willing mind, a man is acceptable according to what he has, and not according to what he has not.

and not only so, but he has also been chosen by the churches as our travelling companion in this charity ministered by us for the glory of the same Lord and our promptitude,

for I know your readiness, of which I boasted in your behalf to the Macedonians that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has excited many.

But we will not boast of things not measured, but according to the measure of the rule which God has given us, to come even to you.

For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified?

but the Scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise of the faith of Jesus Christ may be given to them that believe.

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.

And I, brothers, if I preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then has the offense of the cross ceased.