And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those men present with us, you see this one about whom all the multitude of the Jews pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

about whom I have no certain thing to write of him to my lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, after examination is made, I might have something to write.

at midday, along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun; shining around me.

But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you;

in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

And sailing over the sea against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra of Lycia.

which taking, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the sandbanks of Syrtis, lowering the tackle, so they were borne along.

And on the third day we threw out the ship's tackle with our hands.

Therefore, men, be of good cheer, for I believe God, that it will be so, according to the way it was told me.

But when the fourteenth night came, we being carried about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors thought that they drew near some country.

But the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and lowering the boat into the sea, pretending to be about to cast out anchors from the prow,

And being filled with food, they lightened the ship, throwing the wheat into the sea.

And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea; at the same time they loosened the rudder bands and hoisted up the foresail to the wind and held to the shore.

And the rest went, some on boards and others on some of the things from the ship. And so it happened that all were saved on the land.

And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, being saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed to live.

where finding brothers, we were asked to stay seven days. And so we went toward Rome.

For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.

saying, "Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.

For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to you for the establishing of you.

So, as much as is in me lies, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are at Rome also.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who lays on wrath? (I speak as a man.)

And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

What then shall we say that our father Abraham has found, according to flesh?

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

Is this blessedness then on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith while still uncircumcised; so that he might be the father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be imputed to them also;

Therefore it is of faith so that it might be according to grace; for the promise to be made sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be").

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.

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

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)

Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.

But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

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

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

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.

So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.

And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it with patience.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God who justifies.

What shall we say then? Is there not unrighteousness with God? Let it not be!

So then it is not of the one willing, nor of the one running, but of God, the One showing mercy.

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

No, but, O man, who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me this way?

Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.

Brothers, truly my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for it to be saved.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

But the righteousness of faith says this: "Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven?" that is, to bring Christ down;

But what does it say? "The Word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart"; that is, the Word of Faith which we proclaim;

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes indeed, their voice went out into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

But what does the Divine answer say to him? "I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

Even so then, also in this present time a remnant according to the election of grace has come into being.

Let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and their back always bowing."

I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

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

And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

even so these also have not believed now, so that through your mercy they may also obtain mercy.

For God has shut up all in unbelief, so that He might show mercy to all.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But set your mind to be right-minded, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.

so we the many are one body in Christ, and each one members of one another.

Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him. If he thirsts, give him drink. For in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.

For because of this you also pay taxes. For they are God's servants, always giving attention to this very thing.

Who are you that judges another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he will stand, for God is able to make him stand.

For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

So then each one of us will give account concerning himself to God.

So then let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for building up one another.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

so that with one mind and one mouth you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And I say, Jesus Christ has become a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

in power of miracles and wonders, in power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and all around to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Yea, so I have been eager to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;

but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."

whenever I may go into Spain, I will come to you. For in traveling through I hope to see you, and to be set forward there by you, if first I may be filled of you in part.

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

so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I say this, that every one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men according to the flesh are called, not many mighty, not many noble.

so that no flesh should glory in His presence.

so that, according as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."