from whom you will be able to learn by examination of all these things of which we accuse him.

in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult,

and he commanded the centurion that Paul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid none of his friends to serve him.

FESTUS therefore coming into the province, after three days went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and weighty accusations which they could not prove,

My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of it being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

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

which I also did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my vote against them.

In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with authority, and a commission from the chief priests,

at midday I saw in the way O king, a light from heaven shining around me and those going with me, exceeding the brightness of the sun;

delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I send you

to open their eyes, to turn them 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.

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;

that the Christ should suffer, and that he first from the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the people and the nations.

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 fearing lest we should fall on rough places, casting out four anchors from the stern, they prayed for day.

And the sailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into the sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from the fore part of the ship,

Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food; for this is necessary to your safety, for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you.

but the centurion wishing to save Paul, prohibited them from this design, and commanded those able to swim to cast themselves into the water first, and go to the land;

And Paul having collected a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper coming out from the heat fastened on his hand.

And when the barbarians saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is undoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not permitted to live.

And after three days he called the chief men of the Jews together; and when they had convened, said to them, Men and brothers, having done nothing contrary to the people or to the customs of the fathers, I was delivered up from Jerusalem a prisoner into the hands of the Romans,

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.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for it is known to us concerning this sect, that it is everywhere spoken against.

And appointing him a day they came in great numbers to his lodging, to whom he set forth and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening.

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,

among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ,??7 to all who are at Rome, beloved of God, called to be 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 impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,

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,

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

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

but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's transgression, who is a type of him that was to come;

and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;

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 he that died was justified from sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him.

neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,

and having become free from sin you served righteousness.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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

For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

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.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death?

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.

And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

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

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

But the righteousness by faith speaks thus; Say not in your mind, who shall ascend into heaven???hat is, to bring Christ down,??7 or who shall descend into the abyss???hat is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

For if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe with your mind that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved;

For if their falling away is the reconciling of the world, what will their recovery be but life from the dead?

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.

and so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, A deliverer shall come from Zion, he shall turn away impiety from Jacob.

And this is the promise to them from me, when I take away their sins.

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Wherefore I was also much hindered from coming to you;

that I may be delivered from those that obey not in Judea, and that my service which is for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

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

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

but we speak a wisdom of God hid in mystery, which God appointed from eternity for our glory,

Judge nothing therefore before the time, till the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden deeds of darkness, and make known the purposes of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise from God.

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

but those without, God judges. Remove therefore the evil man from among you.

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another.

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,

Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife.

Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to abstain from labor?

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

For being free from all men, I have made myself a servant of all, that I may gain more;

for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God.

Did the word of God go out from you, or did it come to you alone?

But if Christ is preached that he was raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, a first fruit of those that have 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 was from the earth, earthly, the second man is from heaven.

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

who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver,

and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

I had no rest in my spirit from not finding Titus my brother; but leaving them I went to Macedonia.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory epistles to you or from you?

And we all with unvailed face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was destroyed, we have an edifice from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we also groan, earnestly desiring to put on our dwelling which is from heaven,

Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

So that from henceforth we know no man after the flesh; and if we have known Christ after the flesh, we now know him no more.

Go out therefore from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the impure; and I will receive you,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you grieved to a change of mind; for you were grieved in a godly manner, to suffer injury from us in nothing.

And now, therefore, perform the doing also, that as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be a performance from what you have.

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved in many services to be diligent, and who is now much more diligent from the great confidence in you.

Let each one contribute as he chooses in his heart, not with regret or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.