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

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

who have received the law by orders of angels and have not kept it.

But Peter said to him, Your money go to perdition with you; because you have thought to purchase the gift of God with money.

You have no part nor inheritance in this work; for your heart is not right before God.

And Simon answered and said, Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have said may come upon me.

And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem;

And looking steadily at him and being afraid, he said, What is wanted, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and charities have come up as a memorial before God.

But Peter said, By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten any thing common and impure.

arise and go down and go with them without hesitation, for I have sent them.

And Peter went down to the men and said, Behold, I am the man whom you seek; what is the cause for which you have come?

wherefore, being sent for I also came without objecting. I ask therefore for what reason you have sent for me?

Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things which God has commanded you.

Can any forbid water that these should be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also have?

And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

and removing him, he raised up for them David for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.

that God has fulfilled this to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is written also in the first psalm, You are my son, to-day have I begotten you.

For thus has the Lord commanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be a salvation even to the end of the earth.

And the multitude seeing what Paul did, lifted up their voice in the language of Lycaonia, saying, The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men;

Since we heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words subverting your souls, to whom we gave no charge,

men who have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Him Paul wished to have go with him; and he took and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places; for all knew that his father was a Greek.

And when she was baptized, and her house, she requested saying, If you have judged me faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay; and she constrained us.

And the jailer told these words to Paul; The prefects have sent to let you go; now, therefore, go, and depart in peace.

But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly uncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they privately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and conduct us out.

but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

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

for I am with you; and no one shall attack you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.

and he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.

And when these things were accomplished, Paul was disposed by the Spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome.

For you have brought these men here, who are neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of your goddess.

If, therefore, Demetrius and the artisans with him have a charge against any, court days are held, and there are pro-consuls; let them accuse one another.

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

for I have not kept back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

I have coveted no man's silver or gold or clothing;

you yourselves know that these hands have served my necessities and those with me.

I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

and having heard, they glorified God, and said to him, You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are of those who have believed, among the Jews, and all are zealots of the law;

and they have been informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to apostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.

What then is [to be done]? They will hear everywhere that you have come.

Do this, therefore, which we tell you. We have four men having a vow upon them;

take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may shave their heads, and all will know that the information which they have of you is not correct, but that you walk also yourself keeping the law.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication.

And being about to be carried into the fortress, Paul said to the chiliarch, May I have permission to speak to you? And he said, Do you understand Greek?

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

And Paul looking steadily at the Sanhedrim, said, Men and brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience to this day.

And on the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good courage, for as you have testified of me at Jerusalem, so you must also testify at Rome.

who came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a curse to taste nothing till we kill Paul.

And the chiliarch taking him by the hand and leading him aside, inquired, What is it that you have to tell me?

And he said, The Jews have entered into a compact to ask you to bring down Paul to the Sanhedrim to-morrow, as if about to learn more accurately of something concerning him.

But do not therefore be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them lie in wait, who have taken an oath not to eat nor drink till they have killed him, and now they are ready, awaiting an answer from you.

Then the chiliarch dismissed the young man, charging him, Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.

I will hear you, he said, when your accusers have come; and he commanded him to be kept in the Praetorium of Herod.

And the procurator making a sign to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I shall defend myself cheerfully,

And in this also I endeavor always to have a conscience without offense towards God and man.

who ought to be present and accuse me before you, if they have any thing against me.

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for the present; but when I have time I will call you.

while Paul maintained in his defense, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I done any wrong.

And Paul said, I stand at the tribunal of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have not injured the Jews, as you also know very well.

If indeed I have done wrong or committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if those things of which they accuse me are nothing, no man may give me up to them; I appeal to Caesar.

Then Festus having conferred with the council answered, You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go.

But finding that he had done nothing deserving death, and he having appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

But I have nothing certain to write to the sovereign concerning him, wherefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that on examination I may have something to write;

But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of visions ] in which I will appear to you,

Having obtained therefore help from God, I have continued to this day, testifying to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said should take place;

For the king knows of these things, before whom I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things have escaped his notice; for this was not done in a corner.

Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not to have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.

And when day was about to appear, Paul exhorted all to take food, saying, It is the fourteenth day to-day that you have watched and continued without food, taking nothing.

but the Jews opposing it I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have any thing of which to accuse my nation.

For this reason, therefore, I have called you to see and converse with you, because I am loaded with this chain on account of the hope of Israel.

And they said to him, We have neither received letters concerning you from Judea, nor has any one of the brothers come and reported or told any evil of you.

for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.

declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

asking if by any means I may now at some time have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

But I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, that I might have some fruit also among you, as among the other gentiles.

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

What defense then have we? None at all; for we before asserted that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;

and the way of peace they have not known.

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

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.

So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh,

For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

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

for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness.