But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

But as they opposed him and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, and said: "Your blood be upon your own hands. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

but said, as he took leave of them, "I will return again to you, if God will."

"So there is danger not only that our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be brought into disrepute, and that she herself may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world now worships."

And now I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what will befall me there,

And now I know that not one of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will ever see my face again.

I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock;

and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

"What then ought to be done? They will certainly hear that you are come.

"We have four men here under a vow; associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may have their heads shaved; then every one will know that there is no truth in the rumors that they have heard about you; but that you yourself walk orderly obeying the law.

"And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' and the Lord said to me, 'Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that you are destined to do.'

"Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

"'For before the face of all men you will be a witness for him of what you have seen and heard.

"I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.'

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

"You whited sepulcher," exclaimed Paul, "God will strike you! You are sitting there to judge me according to the law, are you? And do you command me to be struck, contrary to the Law?"

"I will hear your case when your accusers also are come." And he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod's palace.

From him you will be able, by examining Paul yourself, to learn the truth of all these charges we are bringing against him."

At this point Felix, who had a pretty accurate knowledge of the Way, adjourned the case, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will go carefully into the matter."

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."

But Festus, wishing to ingratiate himself with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"

"'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you.

"'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

"Sirs," he said to them, "I perceive that the voyage will be attended with injury and serious loss, not only to the cargo and to the ship, but also to our own lives."

"But now take courage. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship,

"So take courage, men! I believe God, I believe that things will turn out exactly as it has been told me.

"Go to the people and tell them, You will hear and hear, and by no means understand; And will look, and by no means see.

"Be fully assured, therefore, that this salvation of God is now sent unto the Gentiles. They will listen to it."

always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

For He will render to every man according to his works;

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law,

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

For it will be "reckoned for righteousness." to us also, who believe on him that raised from the dead our Lord Jesus;

Why, a man will hardly give his life for another, even for a righteous man, though perchance for a good man one might even take it upon himself to die.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good thing has its home; for while to will is present with me, to carry out that which is right is not.

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thralldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thralldom to the law of sin.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For I count as nothing what we now suffer, in comparison with the glory which will soon be unveiled to us.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

And the Searcher of Hearts knows what the Sprit's meaning is, because his intercessions for the saints are according to the will of God.

Who is there to condemn them? Will Christ who died? Yes, and who rose from the dead, The Christ who is also at the right hand of God, And is interceding for us?

For thus is the word of promise, According to this season I will come, and Sarah shall bear a son.

His words to Moses are. I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy; I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.

So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens.

Then you will say to me. "Why does he still go on finding fault? Who can withstand his will?"

As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

The Scriptures say, Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.

for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses says. I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation; Against a Gentile nation, void of understanding, will I anger you.

For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

Supposing that some of the branches have been broken off, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among the branches and have become a partaker with them of the fatness of the olive tree, do not glory over the branches;

for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, God's goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off.

And they also those Jews, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in again; for God is able to graft them in again.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a mere wild olive tree, and have been grafted, contrary to nature, into a fruitful olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural branches, be regrafted into their own olive tree?

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written. The deliver will come from Zion, He will banish all ungodliness from Jacob;

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Never revenge yourself, beloved, but leave the field clear for God's wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

On the contrary, therefore, If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

Therefore the man who rebels against authority is opposing the divine ordinances; and those who withstand will bring judgment on themselves.

For rulers are no terror to good deeds, but to evil. Would you be fearless of the ruler's authority? Do what is good, and you will have his praise.

Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

and so that the Gentiles also should praise God for his mercy, as it is written, Therefore I will offer praise to thee among the Gentiles, And sing to thy name.

For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

and that I may come to you in joy, by the will of God, and find rest together with you.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.

Now, though he who plants and he who waters are one, each will receive his own reward, according to his own service.

According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.

On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest.

The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

If any man's work??he building he has made??tands the test, he will be rewarded.

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord, and then I shall learn not the talk of these boasters, but their power.

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

"All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but not all things are good for me. "All things are lawful for me"? Yes, but I will not let myself be enslaved by the power of any.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

and the God who raised up our Lord will up-raise us also by his mighty power.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?