concerning whom [when] I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the Jews presented evidence, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

[When they] stood up, [his] accusers began bringing no charge concerning {him} of the evil deeds that I was suspecting,

but they had some issues with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

But [when] Paul appealed [that] he be kept under guard for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, I gave orders [for] him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar."

So Agrippa [said] to Festus, "I want to hear the man myself also." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him."

But I understood [that] he had done nothing deserving death himself, and [when] this man appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send [him].

I do not have anything definite to write to [my] lord about {him}. Therefore I have brought him before you [all]--and especially before you, King Agrippa--so that [after] this preliminary hearing has taken place, I may have something to write.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner and not to indicate the charges against him."

to which our twelve tribes hope to attain as [they] earnestly serve [him] night and day. Concerning this hope I am being accused by the Jews, O king!

And on the next [day], we put in at Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed [him] to go to [his] friends {to be cared for}.

But they were expecting [that] he was going to swell up or suddenly to fall down dead. So [after] they had waited for a long [time] and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds [and] began saying [that] he was a god.

And it happened that the father of Publius was lying down, afflicted with fever and dysentery. Paul went to {him} and [after] praying, he placed [his] hands on him [and] healed him.

And when we entered into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who was guarding him.

And they said to him, "We have received no letters about you from Judea, nor has any of the brothers come [and] reported or spoken anything evil about you.

And [when they] had set a day with him, many more came to him at his lodging place, to whom he was explaining from early in the morning until evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and attempting to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets.

So he stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and welcomed all who came to him,

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."

Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness.

But it was not written for the sake of him alone that it was credited to him,

Therefore, by much more, [because we] have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

For if we have become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be [identified with him in the likeness] of [his] resurrection,

knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

knowing that Christ, [because he] has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person {does not belong to him}.

and if children, also heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together [with him] so that we may also be glorified together [with him].

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion {a stone that causes people to stumble}, and {a rock that causes them to fall}, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

that if you confess with your mouth "Jesus [is] Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For [there] is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same [Lord] [is] Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him.

How then will they call upon [him] in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe [in him] about whom they have not heard? And how will they hear about [him] without one who preaches [to them]?

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

Or who has given in advance to him, and it will be paid back to him?"

For from him and through him and to him [are] all [things]. To him [be] glory for eternity! Amen.

But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."

The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him.

Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

And again, "Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him."

And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will put their hope."

but just as it is written, "[Those] to whom [it was] not announced concerning him will see, and [those] who have not heard will understand."

that in everything you were made rich in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

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

so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.

But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit [with him].

Now to the rest I say--not the Lord--if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or the sister is not bound in such [cases]. But God has called us in peace.

But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live--and thus I order in all the churches.

But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry.

But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, from whom [are] all [things], and we [are] for him, and [there is] one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] all [things], and we [are] through him.

nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested [him], and were destroyed by snakes,

And does not nature itself teach you that a man, if he wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And I will give directions about the remaining [matters] whenever I come.

But if there is no interpreter, he must be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God.

For it is necessary for him to reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

For "he subjected all [things] under his feet." But when it says "all [things]" are subjected, [it is] clear that the one who subjected all [things] to him [is] not included.

But whenever all [things] are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all [things] to him, in order that God may be all in all.

Therefore do not let anyone disdain him, but send him [on his way] in peace in order that he may come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.

Now concerning Apollos our brother, I urged him many [times] that he should come to you with the brothers, and he was not at all willing that he should come now, but he will come whenever he has [an] opportunity.

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him.

For as many as [are the] promises of God, in him [they are] "yes"; therefore also through him [is] the "amen" to the glory of God through us.

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Therefore I urge you to confirm [your] love for him.

But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place.

Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him.

So then, from now on we know no one {from a human point of view}, if indeed we have known Christ {from a human point of view}, but now we know [him this way] no longer.

He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.

For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus {has proven to be true}.

And his affection for you is all the more [when he] remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

And we have sent at the same time with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [has become known] throughout all the churches.

But "the one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

I urged Titus [to go], and I sent the brother [with him]. Titus did not take advantage of you, [did he]? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps?

For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.

Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

As we said before, and now I say again, if anyone is proclaiming a gospel [to] you contrary to what you have received, let him be accursed!

to reveal his Son in me in order that I would proclaim the gospel [about] him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood,

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days,

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed [him] to his face, because he was condemned.

and the rest of the Jews also joined in [this] hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in [their] hypocrisy.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in him,

for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, {the glorious Father}, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him

which he has worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places],

and he subjected all [things] under his feet and gave him [as] head over all [things] to the church,

because through him [we] both have access in one Spirit to the Father.