He will speak a message to you that you and all your household will be saved by.’

Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

Now, look! The Lord’s hand is against you. You are going to be blind, and will not see the sun for a time.” Suddenly a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

After removing him, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man loyal to Me, who will carry out all My will.’

Since He raised Him from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, I will grant you the faithful covenant blessings made to David.

Therefore He also says in another passage, You will not allow Your Holy One to see decay.

Look, you scoffers,
marvel and vanish away,
because I am doing a work in your days,
a work that you will never believe,
even if someone were to explain it to you.”

After these things I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
I will rebuild its ruins
and set it up again,

Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who will personally report the same things by word of mouth.

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.

Farewell.

So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to ridicule him. But others said, “We’d like to hear from you again about this.”

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”

“And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,

“And now I know that none of you will ever see my face again—everyone I went about preaching the kingdom to.

I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

Since he would not be persuaded, we stopped talking and simply said, “The Lord’s will be done!”

So what is to be done? They will certainly hear that you’ve come.

Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay for them to get their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that what they were told about you amounts to nothing, but that you yourself are also careful about observing the law.

“Then I said, ‘What should I do, Lord?’

“And the Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about everything that is assigned for you to do.’

Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the sound of His voice.

For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

and saw Him telling me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me!’

“Then He said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

he said, “I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers get here too.” And he ordered that he be kept under guard in Herod’s palace.

However, so that I will not burden you any further, I beg you in your graciousness to give us a brief hearing.

commanding his accusers to come to you.] By examining him yourself you will be able to discern all these things we are accusing him of.”

Since Felix was accurately informed about the Way, he adjourned the hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”

After Festus conferred with his council, he replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”

Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.”

“Tomorrow you will hear him,” he replied.

But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.

I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them

Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.

Therefore, take courage, men, because I believe God that it will be just the way it was told to me.

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

when He said,

Go to these people and say:
You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.

Therefore, let it be known to you that this saving work of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

He will repay each one according to his works:

All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision?

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

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

How joyful is the man
the Lord will never charge with sin!

He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.

but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.

Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!

Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.

For He tells Moses:

I will show mercy
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.

So then it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved;

for the Lord will execute His sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.

As it is written:

Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him
will not be put to shame.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down

or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Now the Scripture says, Everyone who believes on Him will not be put to shame,

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:

I will make you jealous
of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation
that lacks understanding.

Now if their stumbling brings riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full number bring!

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.

Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?