And the jailor told these words to Paul, saying, the governors have sent orders, that you should be discharged; now therefore depart, and go in peace.

But Paul said unto them, They have publicly beaten us, uncondemned, and Romans, and cast us into prison, and do they now turn us out privately? No verily, let them come themselves and fetch us out.

But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some of the brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, these men that have turned the world upside down,

For in Him we live and move, and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."

for I am with thee, and no man shall lay hands on thee to hurt thee; for I have much people in this city."

and finding some disciples there, he said unto them, Have ye received the holy Spirit since ye embraced the faith? And they said unto him, Nay, we had not even heard whether the holy Spirit be yet given.

After these things, Paul purposed in spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia, and go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

And when Paul would have gone in unto the people, the disciples would not let him.

And they brought Alexander forward out of the multitude, the Jews urging him on. And Alexander beckoning with the hand, would have made a defence to the people.

For ye have brought these men hither, who are neither robbers of temples, nor blasphemers of your goddess.

If Demetrius therefore, and the artificers that are with him, have a charge against any one, the law-courts are open, and there are Roman proconsuls likewise: let them implead one another.

And how I with-held nothing that was useful, but have declared it to you, and have taught you publicly and from house to house:

But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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

For I have not failed to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

I have coveted no one's silver, or gold, or apparel:

and ye yourselves know that these hands have ministred to my necessities, and to those that were with me.

I have shewed you in all things, that by labouring thus ye ought to support the infirm; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And they have heard of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews, who are among the Gentiles, to forsake the law of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after our customs.

Do this therefore, which we advise thee. Here are four men with us, that have a vow upon them: take these and be purified with them,

and join in their expences, that they may shave their head: and that all may know, that there is nothing in what they have heard of thee; but thou thyself walkest according to the law.

But as to the believing Gentiles, we have written and determined, that they need observe no such thing; only to keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from any thing strangled, and from fornication.

and Paul looking earnestly at the sanhedrim, said, "Brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God even to this day:"

who came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves by a curse to eat nothing till we have killed Paul.

And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee, that thou wouldest bring down Paul to-morrow to the council, as if they would inquire something more strictly concerning him.

But do not thou comply with them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and they are now ready, waiting for an order from thee.

and attempting to profane the temple, we apprehended him, and would have judged him according to our law.

And on this account do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards men.

who ought to have been here before thee, and make good their charge, if they had any thing against me.

And he commanded the centurion to keep Paul secure, and to let him have some liberty, and to hinder none of his friends from assisting him or coming to him.

he answering in his own defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cesar have I committed any offence.

Then said Paul, I stand at Cesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as thou very well knowest.

For if I am indeed doing them wrong, and have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing in what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them.

To whom I answered, it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, till he that is accused have the accusers face to face, and have an opportunity of making his defence concerning the accusation.

And Festus said, "King Agrippa and all that are here present with us, ye see this man, concerning whom all the Jews have applied to me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out, that he ought not to live.

But when I found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and as he himself has appealed to the emperor, I have determined to send him.

Concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to our sovereign: wherefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that after examination is made I may have somewhat to write.

But rise, and stand on thy feet: for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things which thou hast seen, and of those for which I shall hereafter appear unto thee:

And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Cesar.

And the haven not being commodious to winter in, the greater part advised to sail from thence, if they could possibly reach to Phenice to winter at that haven of Crete, which looks both to the south-west and north-west.

But after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not loosed from Crete, and so have saved this damage and loss.

And when it was day, they did not know the land near them: but they perceived a certain creek with a shore, into which they were desirous, if they could, to have thrust the ship.

And after three days Paul called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were come together, he said unto them, Brethren, though I have done nothing against the people of the Jews, or the customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

who when they had examined me, would have set me at liberty, because there was no crime worthy of death found in me:

And they said to him, We have neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, nor has any of the brethren, that is come hither, related or spoken any ill of thee.

and they hear heavily with their ears, and have closed their eyes; least they should see at all with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

by whom we have received grace and apostleship to preach the obedience of faith for his name's sake, to all nations;

intreating if I may now at length have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come unto you.

And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come unto you, (but have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

"What then are we the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

and the way of peace they have not known; and the fear of God is not before their eyes."

for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;

(as it is written, "I have made thee a father of many nations,") in the sight of Him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not as if they were:

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

through whom also we have admission by faith into this grace in which we stand, and boast in hope of the glory of God.

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

Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for to that all have sinned:

for if we have been planted together in the resemblance of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection.

For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.

But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.

But now being set free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

And not only others, but those also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body.

that I have great grief and continual sorrow in my heart:

For this is the word of the promise, "According to this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son:"

God forbid! For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

And the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, for this very purpose have I raised thee up, that I may shew forth my power in thee, and that my name may be declared through all the earth.

What shall we say then? that the Gentiles, who sought not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

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

For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is of God.

But how shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

But all have not obeyed the gospel: for Esaias saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

But I say, Have they not heard? Verily their sound is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

and saith to Israel, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people."

saying, "Lord, they have slain thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

But what saith the oracle of God to him? "I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he sought: but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded,

Say I then, Have they stumbled, that they should fall irrecoverably? God forbid! but this I say, that by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles to excite them to emulation.

For I would not have you, brethren, to be ignorant of this mystery, (least ye should be wise in your own eyes) that blindness in part is befallen Israel, till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

For as ye were heretofore disobedient to God, but have now obtained mercy in their disobedience:

so these also in your mercy have now been disobedient, that they themselves might be the objects of mercy.

For God hath included them all in the charge of disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all.

For as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office:

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the civil power? do what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it:

I know and have been taught by the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: only to him that thinketh any thing unclean, to him it is unclean.

Thou who hast faith, have it to thyself before God: and happy is he that condemneth not himself in what he alloweth himself to do.

For whatever things were written heretofore, were written for our instruction; that we through patience and the consolation of the scriptures might have hope.

However, I have written to you, brethren, somewhat the more freely, in reminding you of your duty; because of the favor bestowed upon me by God,

I have therefore matter of glorying in Christ Jesus, as to the things of God.

through the efficacy of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round as far as to Illyricum, I have fully declared the gospel of Christ:

but as it is written, They, to whom nothing was said concerning Him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand.

And thus I have been much hindered from coming to you:

for I hope to see you as I pass by, and to be brought forward by you on my way thither, after I have first had some enjoyment of you.

For the Macedonians and Achaians have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints at Jerusalem.

It pleased them, I say, and they are indeed their debtors; for if the Gentiles have partook of their spiritual things, they ought also to be helpful to them in carnal ones.

Therefore when I have dispatched this, and sealed this fruit of love to them, I will come by you into Spain.