it seemed good to us, having arrived at a common judgment, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

but Paul having chosen Silas went forth, committed by the brethren to the grace of God.

who had a good testimony of the brethren in Lystra and Iconium.

And on the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where it was the custom for prayer to be, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had assembled.

And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you the way of salvation.

And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.

And having brought them into his house he laid the table for them, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.

But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;

But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.

God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

And departing thence he came to the house of a certain man, by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.

And he remained there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to them and unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.

And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

And God wrought no ordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.

And after these days, having got our effects ready, we went up to Jerusalem.

And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

And they having heard it glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.

But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.

And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye are all this day;

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to hear a voice out of his mouth;

And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.

And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.

Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall. And thou, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?

And those that stood by said, Dost thou rail against the high priest of God?

But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.

neither can they make good the things of which they now accuse me.

But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;

having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

to whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.

And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Having therefore met with the help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,

And Paul said, I would to God, both in little and in much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bonds.

And sailing slowly for many days, and having with difficulty got abreast of Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete abreast of Salmone;

And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of any of you, only of the ship.

For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night,

saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.

Wherefore be of good courage, men, for I believe God that thus it shall be, as it has been said to me.

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let her fall.

And, having said these things and taken a loaf, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken it began to eat.

But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, casting themselves first into the sea, to get out on land;

and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things that came from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all got safe to land.

And when we got safe to land we then knew that the island was called Melita.

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down suddenly dead. But when they had expected a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

And thence the brethren, having heard about us, came to meet us as far as Appii Forum and Tres Tabernae, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.

And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening.

Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God has been sent to the nations; they also will hear it.

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom unhinderedly.

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith.

For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

Because what is known of God is manifest among them, for God has manifested it to them,

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them.

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things.

And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them thyself, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek:

for there is no acceptance of persons with God.

(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.

But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

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