But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

Here he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.

"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" he asked them. "No" said they, "we did not even hear that there is a Holy Spirit."

"And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost throughout all of Asia, this fellow Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, by telling them that they are no gods at all who are made with hands.

"So there is danger not only that our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be brought into disrepute, and that she herself may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world now worships."

At length the recorder got them quiet. "Men of Ephesus," he said, "who here does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-guardian of the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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

After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on the left hand, we sailed for Syria, and put in at Tyre; for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

"What then ought to be done? They will certainly hear that you are come.

"We have four men here under a vow; associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may have their heads shaved; then every one will know that there is no truth in the rumors that they have heard about you; but that you yourself walk orderly obeying the law.

"Now my companions, though they beheld the light, did not hear the words of Him who spoke to me.

"came to me, and standing by me, said to me, "'Brother Saul, receive your sight' "In that very hour I regained my sight and looked up at him.

"Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

"Here I learned that he was accused about questions of their law, but was not charged with anything worthy of death or imprisonment.

"I will hear your case when your accusers also are come." And he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

"who ought to have been here before you, and to have made accusations if they had anything against me.

And while they tarried many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "whom Felix left a prisoner.

"So when a number of them came together here, I made no delay, but the next day took my seat in the tribunal, and commanded the man to be brought.

"I should like to hear the man, myself," said Agrippa to Festus. Festus answered, "You shall hear him tomorrow."

"King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

"especially since you are an export in all Jewish customs and questions. I pray you, expert in all Jewish customs and questions. I pray you, hear me with patience.

And there the centurion found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board of her.

when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and let her drive.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off.

"So I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety. For there shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you."

"But we are eager to hear from you what it is that you believe; for we all know that as for this sect it is everywhere spoken against."

"Go to the people and tell them, You will hear and hear, and by no means understand; And will look, and by no means see.

For this people's heart is grown obtuse, Their ears are heavy of hearing, Their eyes have they closed, Lest they should see with their eyes And hear with their ears, Lest they understand with their heart, And turn again, and heal them.

For the promise that he should be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith-righteousness.

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

For we know that all nature has been groaning and travailing together until this hour.

it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.

As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of slumber, Eyes that they should not see, Ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

Every one should be in the higher authorities; for there is no authority apart from God. The authorities that now exist have been appointed by God.

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour!

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away.

And a woman whose husband is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let her not separate from him.

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

So he that gives his daughter in marriage is doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing right, and he who keeps her unmarried will be doing better.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head (her husband). for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

If a woman does not wear a veil, let her also cut off her hair; now if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her be veiled.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

Nor does nature itself teach you that it is a disgrace to a man to have long hair,

but it is woman's glory, because her hair has been given her instead of a veil.

Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?

only they used to hear it said, "He who was once persecuting us is now preaching the gospel of the very faith which he once tried to ruin."

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

So each one of you is no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir, too, through God's grace.

(for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.)

But what does the Scripture say? Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave's son shall not be heir along with the son of the free woman.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,

in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word,

so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

There is a deep mystery here?? am speaking of Christ and his church.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.

These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

They will inform you of all that goes on here.

Salute the brothers in Laodicea; Nympha also, and the church which meets at her house.

On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children.

But I hear that there are those of your number who are leading idle and disorderly lives, who are not busy, but mere busybodies.

Some have failed here, and have turned aside to empty argument.

in like manner also the women. I desire women to clothe themselves in suitable apparel, adorning themselves with reverence and self-restraint; not with hair plaited with gold or pearls, or with expensive clothes,

I allow no woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man; but let her keep quiet.

For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.

Nevertheless the Lord Jesus stood by me, and strengthened my heart, that through me full proclamation of the gospel might be made, and the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion's jaws.

Perhaps for this reason you were separated from him for an hour, in order that you might have him back forever,

has at the end of these days spoken to us in a Son whom he appointed heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe.

Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built a house has higher honor than the house itself.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God's voice today,

In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation.

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

By faith Noah, warned of God of things not yet seen, reverently gave heed, and built an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is of faith.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.

and you look up to him who wears the fine clothing, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place!" and to the poor man you say, "Stand there!" or "Sit on the floor at my feet!"

In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way?

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

And since you call upon him as Father, who impartially judges each one according to his deeds, pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence.