And the nation to which they shall be in bondage I will judge, said God; and after that, they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them; and now come, and I will send you into Egypt.

This is that Moses, who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet like me will the Lord your God raise up for you from among your brethren; him shall you hear.

Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your God Remphan, images which you made to worship; and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What house will -you build me? says the Lord; or what is the place of my rest?

For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name.

In this were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts and creeping things and birds of the air.

Send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter: he lodges in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea; who, when he comes, will speak to you.

When I had looked attentively into it, I observed and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts and creeping things and birds of the air.

he will tell you words by which you and all your house shall be saved.

said: full of all deceit and all wickedness, child of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom he gave this testimony: I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.

But that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: I will give you the sure mercies of David.

For which reason he says also in another Psalm: Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish. For I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, though one fully declare it to you.

After this I will return, and build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up;

We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, who will tell you the same things in word.

That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world, in righteousness, by the man whom he has chosen, giving to all assurance of this, by having raised him from the dead.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; others said: We will hear you again concerning this matter.

But when they set themselves in opposition, and reviled, he shook his clothing, and said to them: Your blood be upon your own head; I am clean. Henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

but if it is a question about a word, and names, and your law, see to it yourselves: for I will not be a judge of these tilings.

but took leave of them, saying: I must, by all means, keep this coming feast in Jerusalem: but I will return to you, if God be willing. And he sailed from Ephesus,

Now there is danger, not only that this our calling will come into disgrace, but that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised, and that the majesty of her whom all Asia and the world worships, will be destroyed.

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

For I know this, that, after my departure, rapacious wolves will enter in among you, who will not spare the flock;

and men will arise from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, that they may draw off disciples after them.

and he came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own hands and feet, and said: Thus says the Holy Spirit; the Jews that are in Jerusalem will so bind the man to whom this girdle belongs; and they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

And as he would not be persuaded, we kept silence, and said: The will of the Lord be done.

What, then, is to be done? A. multitude must certainly come together; for they will hear that you have come.

Take them, and join with them in their vow of abstinence, and pay their expenses, in order that they may shave their heads; and all will know that the things which they have heard reported of you are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.

as the chief priest and the whole body of elders will testify for me. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring those, also, who were there, bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of his mouth;

and saw him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your testimony concerning me.

And he said to me, Depart, for I will send you far off to the Gentiles.

Then Paul said to him: God will smite you, you whitened wall! for do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet violate the law by commanding me to be smitten?

And they went to the chief priests and elders, and said: We have surely bound ourselves under a curse, that we will taste nothing till we have killed Paul.

Do not, however, be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him; and they have bound themselves under a curse, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for a promise from you.

And when he had read the letter, he inquired to what province he belonged. And learning that he was from Cilicia, he said: I will hear you when your accusers also have come. And he ordered him to be kept under guard in Herod's palace.

having hope in God, which they themselves also admit, that I there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust.

But Felix, having a more accurate knowledge of this way, put them off, and said: When Lysias the officer comes down, I will inquire fully into your matters.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: For the present withdraw; when I have a convenient season, I will call for you.

But arise, and stand upon your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness of the things which you have seen, and of those in which I will appear to you,

saying: Men, I perceive that this voyage will be with damage and much loss, not only to the cargo and the ship, but also to our lives.

Wherefore, I exhort you to take food; for this will pro mote your safety. For not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you.

saying: Go to this people and say, You shall surely hear, but you will not understand; and you shall surely see, but you will not perceive.

Therefore, be it known to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

always in my prayers making request, that, if possible, I may at length have a prosperous journey, by the will of God to come to you.

But do you, man, who judge those that practice such things, and yet do the same, conclude that you will escape the judgment of God?

who will render to every man according to his works;

and know his will, and approve what is excellent, being instructed by the law:

What, indeed, if some have been unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness overthrow the faithfulness of God?

since there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not charge sin.

For hardly, in deed, will one die for a just man; yet, perhaps, for the good man some one would even dare to die.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised the Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you.

For the creature was subject to frailty, (not by its own will, but for his sake who subjected it,)

And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, that he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not with him also freely give us all things?

nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. SECTION THIRD. God's Dealings with Israel as a People,

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

For he says to Moses: I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy; and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.

You will then say to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?

As he says also in Hosea: I will call that my people which is not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

for his word he fulfills, and he decrees in righteousness; for his word that is decreed, will the Lord execute upon the land.

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

But I say: Did not Israel know? First, Moses says: I will excite you to jealousy by that which is no nation; and by a foolish nation I will provoke you to wrath.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive,

You will say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

For if you were cut out from an olive-tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, against nature, into a good olive, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath of God; for it is written: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

If, therefore, your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by doing this, you will heap coals of fire on his head.

For rulers are not a terror to works that are good, but to those which are evil. Will you, then, not be afraid of the authority? Do that which is good, and you shall receive praise from the same.

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: For this cause I will give praise to thee among the Gentiles, and to thy name will I sing.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, by word and deed, in order to make the Gentiles obedient,

When, therefore, I shall have performed this, and have delivered to them this fruit, I will go by you into Spain.

that I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed among you.

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

PAUL, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sostlienes my brother,

He also will establish you even to the end, and make you blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; and I will set aside the understanding of the prudent.

So, then, judge nothing be fore the time, till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secret works of darkness, and will also make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall each have his praise from God.

but I will come to you quickly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the speech of those who have become arrogant, but the power.

But God will judge those who are without. So then judge, and put away that wicked man from among you.

All meats are lawful for me: but all are not profitable. All are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under subjection by any.

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:

and God has raised, up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well.

The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?

and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?

For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

and if any one is hungry, let him eat at home, that you come not together for condemnation. But other things I will set in order when I come.

Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, in what will I profit you, unless I speak to you by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by teaching?

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?