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

If then Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against any one, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls; let them bring their charges against each other.

And when they had come to him, he said to them: Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you the whole time,

how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but have made it known to you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house;

for I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

I have coveted no mans silver, or gold, or apparel.

But they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after the customs.

Do this therefore that we advise thee. We have four men who have a vow on them.

These take, and purify thyself with them, and pay the expenses for them, that they may shave their heads; and all will know that those things of which they have been informed concerning thee are nothing, but that thou thyself also walkest in observance of the Law.

But concerning the gentile believers, we have written to them and decided that they should observe no such thing, save only to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from what hath been strangled, and from fornication.

On the morrow, wishing to have certain knowledge why he was accused by the Jews, he released him, and ordered the chief priests and all the council to assemble; and bringing Paul down, he set him before them.

And Paul looking earnestly upon the council, said: Brethren! I have ordered my life in all good conscience before God to this day.

And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as though thou wert about to inquire more thoroughly concerning him.

But do not thou yield to them; for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him; and they are now ready, looking for the promise from thee.

but I found him to be accused only on account of questions of their law, and to have nothing laid to his charge deserving death or bonds.

he said, I will hear thee fully, when thy accusers also have arrived. And he ordered him to be kept in Herods palace.

For we have found this man to be a pest, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;

On this ground do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

He also gave orders to the centurion to guard him, and let him have indulgence, and not to forbid any of his friends to do him service.

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix became alarmed, and answered, Go thy way for the present; and when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

Let those therefore, said he, who have authority among you, go down with me and accuse this man, if he is guilty of anything.

while Paul said in his defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offence.

But Paul said, I stand at the judgmentseat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest.

If indeed I am an offender, and have done anything deserving death, I refuse not to die; but if there be nothing in the charges which they bring against me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

and as I have nothing certain to write about him to the emperor, I have brought him forward before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that when the examination hath been made, I may have something to write.

But arise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared to thee for this purpose, to prepare thee as a minister and a witness both of the things which thou sawest, and of those on account of which I will appear to thee;

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

And after there had been much abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have put to sea from Crete, nod thus brought upon yourselves this injury and loss.

And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food; saying, This is the fourteenth day that ye have waited, and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see you and speak to you; for it is on account of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.

For the heart of this people hath become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."

But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, though I have been hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit of my labors among you also, as among the other gentiles.

For as many as have sinned without a law, will also perish without a law; and as many as have sinned under a law, will be judged by a law,

for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to the gospel which I have preached.

What then? Are we better than others? By no means! For we have already brought a charge both against Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

they have all turned aside from the right way, they have become worthless together; there is none that doeth good, not even one.

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have practised deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips.

For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;

And he received the outward sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised who have faith, so that righteousness might be put to their account also;

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

Therefore being accepted as righteous through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

through whom also we have had admission into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory which God will confer.

and not this only, but also having joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

As then through one trespass all men have come under condemnation, so through one act of righteousness all obtain the gift of righteousness unto life.

For if we have been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also;

But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.

What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."

For they who are according to the flesh have their mind on the things of the flesh; but they who are according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit.

I have great grief and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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

For he saith to Moses, "On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion."

And as Isaiah hath said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we should have become as Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah."

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

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

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

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

"Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my life."

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

And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker with them of the root and fatness of the olivetree,

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.

And this will be my covenant with them, when I shall have taken away their sins."

For as ye in times past were disobedient to God, but have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

so they too have now become disobedient, that they also may obtain mercy through the mercy shown to you.

For God delivered up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

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

Having then gifts which dither according to the grace which hath been bestowed upon us, if we have prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

Render to no one evil for evil; have regard to what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Let every one submit to the authorities that are over him; for there is no authority which is not from God: and the authorities which exist have been ordained by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wouldst thou then not be afraid of the government? Do that which is good, and thou wilt have praise from it;

Thou hast faith; have it to thyself before God. Happy is he who doth not condemn himself in that which he alloweth.

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

But I have written to you, brethren, in a manner somewhat bold on some subjects, as putting you in mind, on account of the grace given me by God

I have then ground for glorying in Christ Jesus in regard to the things pertaining m God.

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and in the country around even to Illyricum, I have fully made known the gospel of Christ;

but, as it is written: "They, to whom no tidings concerning him came, shall see; and they that have not heard shall understand."

For which cause also, for the most part, I have been hindered from coming to you.

when I go to Spain, I will come to you; for I hope to see you on my way, and to be helped forward thither by you, after I have in some degree satisfied myself with your company.

For Macedonia and Achaia have thought it good to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

They have thought it good, and they owed it to them. For if the gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought in return to minister to them in temporal things.

When therefore I have completed this business, and secured to them this fruit, I shall set out to pass through you to Spain.

For your obedience hath become known to all. Over you, then, I rejoice; but I would have you wise as to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are dissensions among you.

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

which none of the rulers of this world comprehended; for had they comprehended it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

but, as it is written: "The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the great things which God hath prepared for those that love him."

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;

For "who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

According to the grace of God bestowed on me, I, as a skilful masterbuilder, have laid the foundation; and another buildeth thereon; but let every one take heed, how he buildeth thereon.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the purposes of mens hearts; and then shall every one have his praise from God.

And these things, brethren, I have transferred in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us ye may learn not to go beyond what is written, that no one of you may pride himself in one against another.

Already ye are full; already ye are rich; without us ye have become kings; and I would indeed ye were kings, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

Even to this very hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace,

being slandered, we exhort; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

For though ye have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begot you through the gospel.

It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.

For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,

For what have I to do with judging those who are without? Do not ye judge those who are within?