Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

And after he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; concerning whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'

he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: 'You are my Son; today I have begotten you.'

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek,

When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

He was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial."

But the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, and he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.

At midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.

But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness to the things which you have seen of me, and also to the things in which I will appear to you;

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was raging on us, all hope of our being saved was finally abandoned.

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers,

For since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his eternal power and deity, has been clearly seen, being understood by the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be reckoned to them.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

(For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted when there is no law.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses brings justification.

Law came in, that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live any longer in it?

We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

So you also, consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its passions.

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one to obey as slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

and, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is holiness and its end, eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But it was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

So then, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

Thanks be to Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I of myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin: he condemned sin in the flesh,

But if Christ is in you, although your body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

For this is what the promise said: "About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son."

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

But he who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out, not the words of these arrogant people, but their power.

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

But if any man thinks that he is not acting properly toward his betrothed, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let them marry.

Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; but prophecy is for believers, not for unbelievers.

When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

So is it with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised imperishable;

it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by usby me and Silvanus and Timothywas not Yes and No, but in him it has always been Yes.

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are unseen are eternal.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not!

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

But the Scripture has bound everyone under sin, so that that what was promised by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

But the son by the slave was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.

Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to become mature, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

in no way frightened by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction to them, but of salvation for you and that too, from God.

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news of you.

But you know that he has proved his worth, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.