But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Beroea, too, the word of God was preached by Paul, they came hither also, and stirred up the multitudes.

For while passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, "To an unknown God." What therefore ye, without knowledge of it, worship, that do I make known to you.

The God who made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from every one of us.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.

The times indeed of ignorance God overlooked; but now commandeth all men every where to repent;

And he departed thence, and went to the house of a certain man, named Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was very near the synagogue.

And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

saying, This man persuadeth people to worship God contrary to the law.

but having taken leave of them, saying, I will return to you, if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.

And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for three months, discoursing and persuading concerning the kingdom of God.

And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul;

Since then these things cannot be denied, ye ought to be quiet, and do nothing rashly.

testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus.

But I count life of no value to me, so that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

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

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And after those days we got ready our baggage, and went up to Jerusalem.

And having embraced them, he recounted particularly what things God had wrought among the gentiles through his ministry.

And they on hearing it glorified God; and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealots for the Law.

I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, hut brought up in this city, taught at the feet of Gamaliel in the strictness of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day.

And he said, The God of our fathers chose thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth;

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

Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, thou whited wall! Art thou then sitting to judge me according to the law, and dost thou command me to be smitten contrary to the law?

And the night following, the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast borne witness concerning me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

But this I acknowledge to thee, that according to the way [of belief] which they call a sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and by the Prophets;

having a hope in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

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

And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers,

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God day and night, hope to obtain; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by Jews.

Why is it judged incredible with you if God raiseth the dead?

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.

but first to those in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judaea, and then to the gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Having, however, obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except those things which the Prophets and Moses said were to come to pass;

And Paul said, I would to God, that with little effort or with great, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, might be made such as I am, except these bonds.

And running under a certain small island called Clauda, we were hardly able to get possession of the boat;

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

saying, Fear not, Paul! Thou must stand before Caesar; and lo, God hath given thee all those that sail with thee.

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it will be just as it hath been told me.

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

And having thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all, and having broken it, he began to eat.

Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took food.

But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and ordered those who could swim to cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land,

But they were looking for his becoming swollen, or suddenly falling down dead. But after looking a great while, and seeing no harm come to him they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

And from thence, the brethren having heard of us came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns; at the sight of whom Paul thanked God and took courage.

And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom he expounded, and earnestly testified, the kingdom of God, endeavoring to persuade them concerning Jesus both from the Law of Moses, and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.

Be it therefore known to you, that to the gentiles this salvation of God hath been sent; they, moreover, will hear.

proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without hindrance from any one.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, set apart to preach the gospel of God,

and shown with power to be the Son of God as to his spirit of holiness, by the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

to all the beloved of God at Rome, called, holy: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the first place, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how constantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

supplicating that, if it be possible, I may at last through the will of God be favored with an opportunity of coming to you.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.

For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, who keep down the truth in unrighteousness.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest within them; for God made it manifest to them.

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

and for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and fourfooted beasts and creeping things.

Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;

because they changed the true God for false gods, and adored and worshipped created things rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

slanderers, hated of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of mischief, disobedient to parents,

who, although knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things deserve death, not only do them themselves, but approve of those who do them.

But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practise such things.

And dost thou suppose, O man, who art judging those who do such things, and art thyself doing the same, that thou wilt escape the judgment of God?

Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation of the righteous judgment of God,

but glory, honor, and peace, to every one whoso works are good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

for it is not the hearers of a law who are righteous before God, but the doers of a law will be accounted righteous;

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

But if thou art called a Jew, and restest on the Law, and makest thy boast of God,

Dost thou who boastest of the Law, dishonor God by breaking the Law?

For, as it is written, "the name of God is on your account blasphemed among the gentiles."

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, spiritual, not literal, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Great, every way. In the first place, because they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what? If some were unfaithful, shall their unfaithfulness make God unfaithful?

Far be it! yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art arraigned."

But if our unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)

Far be it! For then how shall God judge the world?

For if, through my being false, the truth of God hath been more abundantly manifested to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?

And why do you not say, as some slanderously charge us with saying, Let us do evil, that good may come? The condemnation of such men is just.

there is none that hath understanding, there is none that diligently seeketh God;

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

There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Now we know that whatever the Law saith, it saith to those who are under the Law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become subject to condemnation before God.

But now, apart from the Law, the righteousness which is of God, to which the Law and the Prophets bear testimony,

even the righteousness which is of God through faith in Jesus Christ, hath been made manifest to all and for all believers. For there is no distinction.

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

whom, in his blood, through faith, God hath set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, in order to manifest his righteousness, on account of his passing by, in his forbearance, the sins committed in former times;

Or is God [the God] of Jews alone? Is he not also the God of gentiles? Yea, of gentiles also.

Seeing there is but one God, who will accept the circumcised as righteous by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before God.

For what saith the scripture? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness."

as David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man whom God accepteth as righteous without works:

(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.