While engaged in these things, certain Jews from Asia found me fulfilling my vow of abstinence in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with tumult.

When Festus, having entered upon his government, after three days went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around, and brought many and heavy accusations against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

My course of life from my youth, which, from the beginning, was among my own nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

who, knowing me from the first, could testify, if they would, that, according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

And this I did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests: and when they were put to death, I gave my vote against them.

While I was engaged in these things, and was going to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

at midday, while I was on the road, I saw, King, a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those who journeyed with me.

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,

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

Having, therefore, obtained help from God, I have stood till this day, testifying both to small and to great, saying nothing else than the things which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass:

that Christ should suffer, and that he first, by his resurrection from the dead, should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.

And as the harbor was not commodious to winter in, the majority advised that they should put to sea from that place also, if, by any means, they might reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a harbor of Crete, lying toward the south-west and north-west.

But, after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them, and said: men, you ought to have been persuaded by me, and not to have put to sea from Crete; and you would have avoided this damage and loss.

And fearing that we would fall upon rocks, they threw out four anchors from the stern, and wished for day.

And as the sailors were attempting to flee from the ship, and were letting down the boat into the sea, under the pretext that they were about to let down anchors from the prow,

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.

But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, to throw themselves into the sea first, and get to land;

and then the rest, some on planks, and others on what could be taken from the ship. And thus it came to pass, that all got safe to land.

And when the barbarians saw the reptile hanging from his hand, they said to one an other: This man is certainly a murderer, whom, although he has saved himself from the sea, justice does not permit to live.

Then he shook the reptile from him into the fire, and suffered no harm.

from which place, by coasting about, we came to Rhegium; and one day afterward, the south wind arose; and we came, on the next day, to Puteoli,

And from this place, the brethren, having heard of us, came out as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns, to meet us. When Paul saw the brethren, he thanked God, and took courage.

And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together the chief men of the Jews; and when they had come, he said to them: Brethren, though I have done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

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

But we think it right to hear from you what you think: for, as it respects this sect, we know that it is everywhere spoken against.

And when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging; to whom, from morning till evening;, he earnestly testified, and set forth the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and from the prophets.

but declared to be the Son of God with power, according to his holy spiritual nature, by his resurrection from the dead,

to all that are in Rome, be loved of God, called saints: Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who, by unrighteousness, restrain the truth.

but for our sakes also, to whom it shall be counted, if we believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

much more, then, since we are now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through him.

Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of him that was to come.

Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.

for he that is dead is freed from sin.

because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no longer;

and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;

and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness.

But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband die, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.

but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of 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.

in hope, that even the creature itself shall be made free from the bondage of corruption, and introduced into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

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 I could wish my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;

Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

or, Who shall descend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ again from the dead.

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.

For, if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the reception of them be, but life from the dead?

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 so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Or, who has first given to him, and received from him a recompense?

For from him, and by him, and for him, are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority but from God: the authorities that are, have been appointed by God.

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.

by the power of signs and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit. So that from Jerusalem, and round about as far as Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of the Christ;

For which reason, also, I have been often hindered from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that this service of mine, which is for Jerusalem, may be acceptable to the saints;

grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us, from God, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:

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.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.

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

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Do you not know that those who are engaged about sacred rites have their living from the temple? and that those who attend upon the altar are partakers with the altar?

For, though I am free from all men, yet have I made my self a servant to all, that I may gain the more.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: That the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was delivered up, took bread;

Has the word of God come forth from you? or did it come to you only?

But if Christ is preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you, that a resurrection of the dead is impossible?

But now, Christ has risen from the dead, the first-fruits of those who slept.

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.

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man, the Lord from heaven.

grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

who delivered us from so great a death, and does still deliver us: in whom we have confidence, that he will continue to deliver us,

and by you, to pass through into Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and be conducted by you into Judea.

And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

For I wrote to you for this purpose also, that I might have a sure proof from you, whether you are obedient in all things.

For we do not, as the many, adulterate the word of God; but, as from sincerity, but, as from God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as some do, letters of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise any thing, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

And we all, with unvailed face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord the Spirit.

For we know that if our earthly house, which is but a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house that is from heaven,

Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.

And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

For this reason, come out from among them, and separate yourselves, says the Lord, and touch not an unclean person, and I will receive you;