These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.

I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you.

Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.

If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not sin and now they have no pretext for their sin.

If I did not the works in them which none other has done, they had not sin: and now have they also seen and hated also me and my Father.

These have I spoken, that ye should not be offended.

But these have I spoken to you, that when the hour should come, ye should remember them, for I said to you. And these I said not to you from the beginning, for I was with you.

But because I have spoken these to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

And where truly ye now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you.

Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.

These have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the hour comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but with freedom of speech will I announce to you of the Father.

For the Father himself loves you, for ye have loved me, and believed that I came forth from God.

I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world shall ye have pressure; but take courage; I have conquered the world.

I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.

Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me.

And all my things are thine, and thine mine; and I have been honoured in them.

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them.

I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

And I, the honour which thou hast given me, have-given them; that they might be one, as we are one.

Pilate answered, Much less am I a Jew; thy nation and the chief priests have delivered thee to me: What didst thou?

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, for he made himself the Son of God.

Then says Pilate to him, Speakest thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to loose thee.

And they cried, Take away, take away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

Jesus says to her, Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father: and go thou to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; to my God, and your God.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained.

Then said the other disciples to him, We have seen the Lord. And he said to them, Except I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

But these have been written, that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life in his name.

Then says Jesus to them, Children, have ye nothing cooked to eat? They answered him, No.

Jesus says to them, Bring ye from the little fishes which ye have now caught.

And Peter said, Silver and gold are not to me; but what I have, this I give thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarite, arise and walk.

The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has honoured his child Jesus; whom ye have delivered up, and denied him before the face of Pilate, he having judged to loose.

For we cannot, the things we have seen and heard, not speak.

Saying, Did we not announce to you by order, not to teach by this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye desire to bring upon us this man's blood.

Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.

For we have heard him saying; That Jesus the Nazarite shall abolish this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

Who have received the law by the regulations of messengers, and ye watched not.

And Simon having answered, said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that nothing which ye have spoken come upon me.

And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evils he did to thy holy ones in Jerusalem:

And he was hungry, and would have eaten: and these making ready, a deep trance fell upon him,

But thou having risen, come down, and go with them, discussing nothing; for I have sent them.

And they said to her, Thou art mad. And she was strengthened to have it so. And they said, It is his messenger.

And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.

And having found no cause of death, they desired Pilate to have him slain.

For this has God completed to us, their children, having raised up Jesus; as it has also been written in the second Psalms, Thou art my Son; to day have I begotten thee.

And the Jews having gone out of the synagogue, the nations besought to have these words spoken in the sabbath between.

For so has the Lord commanded us, I have set thee for a light of the nations, for thee to be for salvation even to the last of the earth.

Since we heard that certain of us having come out have troubled you with words, destroying your souls, saying, To be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we sent no word:

Therefore have we sent Judas and Silas, and these by the word announcing these things.

And when she was immersed, and her house, she besought, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having come into my house, remain. And she forced us.

And the jailor being awakened, and having seen the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the imprisoned to have fled.

And the jailor announced these words to Paul, That the generals have sent that ye be loosed: now therefore having come out, go in peace.

And Paul having stood in the midst of Mars' hill, said, Men, Athenians, I see that in all things ye have a superstitious fear of divinity.

To seek the Lord, if perchance indeed they have felt for him, and found, although not being far from each one of us:

For in him we live, and move, and are; as certain of the composers among you have said, For we also are his race.

And Paul being about to open the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If therefore it were truly any injustice or wicked, criminal action, O Jews, against the word, I should have borne with you:

He said to them, Having believed, have ye received the Holy Spirit? And they said to him, But neither heard we if there be a Holy Spirit.

And when these were completed, Paul proposed in spirit, having passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem, saying, That after have been there, I must also see Rome.

If truly therefore Demetrius, and the artificers with him, have a word against any, the court days are kept, and there are proconsuls; let them prosecute one another.

But the word of none do I make mine own, neither have I my soul highly prized to myself, in order to finish my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the good news of the grace of God.

Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired.

And Paul answered, What do ye weeping and breaking my heart? for I not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem, have prepared for the name of the Lord Jesus.

And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.

And the captain of a thousand answered, I obtained this citizenship for much capital. And Paul said, And I have been born.

And Paul, having looked intently to the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived as a citizen in all good conscience to God till this day.

And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.

Who ought to be present to thee, and accuse, if they have anything against me.

And having appointed a centurion to keep Paul, and to have a setting at liberty, and to hinder none of his own to serve or come to him.

He justifying himself, That neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned any thing.

For if truly I act with injustice, and have done anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing of which these accuse me, no one can yield me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

To whom I answered, That it is not the custom to Romans to yield up any man to destruction, before that the accused may have the accusers before the face, and take place for defence for the accusation.

Of whom I have not anything certain to write to the lord. Wherefore I brought him to you, and especially to thee, king Agrippa, so that, examination having been, I should have some thing to write.

And Agrippa said to Festus, This man could have been loosed, if he had not appealed to Caesar.

And the south wind having blown softly, having thought to have obtained the purpose, hoisting up near, they sailed by Crete.

And I would not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that many times I proposed to come to you, (and I was hindered till this time,) that I might have some fruit also in you, and in the rest of the nations.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting;

And not, (as we are defamed, and some have declared us to say,) That we should do evil things, that good things might come: whose judgment is just.

What advantage therefore have we? Not in any way: for we before accused both Jews and Greeks, all to be under sin.

All have bent aside, together have they become unprofitable: there is none doing good, there is not even one.

Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:

For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;

What then shall we say Abraham our father to have found, according to the flesh?

(As it has been written, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being.

Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:

By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.

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

Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:

For if grown together we have been in the likeness of his death, but also shall we be of the resurrection:

And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father.

As has been written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated.

I will commiserate whomsoever I commiserate, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I have compassion.

For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.

For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.