But that he has raised him from the dead, no more going to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the reliable divine decrees of David.'

Therefore he also says in another [psalm], 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.'

But we believe [we] will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in {the same} way those also [are]."

'After these [things] I will return and build up again the tent of David that has fallen, and the [parts] of it that had been torn down I will build up again and will restore it,

Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, and they will report the same [things] by word of mouth.

[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.

And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household!"

Now [when they] heard about the resurrection of the dead, [some] scoffed, but [others] said, "We will hear you about this again also."

And [when] they resisted and reviled [him], he shook out [his] clothes [and] said to them, "Your blood [be] on your [own] heads! I [am] guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"

because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because many people are mine in this city."

but saying farewell and telling [them], "I will return to you again [if] God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

So not only is there a danger this line of business of ours [will] come into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis [will] be regarded as nothing--and [she] is about to be brought down even from her grandeur, [she] whom the whole [of] Asia and the [entire] world worship!"

But if you desire anything further, it will be settled in the lawful assembly.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused of rioting concerning today, [since there] is no cause in relation to which we will be able to give an account concerning this disorderly gathering!" And [when he] had said these [things], he dismissed the assembly.

"And now behold, bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me {there},

"And now behold, I know that all [of] you, among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom, will see my face no more.

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

And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.

And he came to us and took Paul's belt. Tying up his own feet and hands, he said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

And [because] he would not be persuaded, we remained silent, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

What then {is to be done}? Doubtless they will all hear that you have come!

Take these [men] [and] purify yourself along with them and {pay their expenses} so that they can shave [their] heads, and everyone will know that [the things] which they had been informed about you are nothing, but you yourself also agree with observing the law.

So I said, 'What should I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up [and] proceed to Damascus, and there it will be told to you about all [the things] that have been appointed for you to do.'

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth,

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

and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and depart {quickly} from Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

And 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 arrive also," giving orders [for] him to be guarded in the praetorium of Herod.

[When] you yourself examine [him] you will be able to find out from {him} about all these [things] of which we are accusing him."

But Felix, [because he] understood the [facts] concerning the Way more accurately, put them off, saying, "When Lysias the military tribune comes down, I will decide {your case}."

And [while] he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid [and] replied, "Go away for the present, and [when I] have an opportunity, I will summon you."

Then Festus, [after] discussing [this] with [his] council, replied, "You have appealed to Caesar--to Caesar you will go!"

So Agrippa [said] to Festus, "I want to hear the man myself also." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him."

But get up and stand on your feet, because for this [reason] I have appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and witness both [to the things] in which you saw me and [to the things] in which I will appear to you,

And now I urge you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life from among you, but only of the ship.

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will be like this--according to {the} way it was told to me.

Therefore I urge you to take [some] food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost."

saying, 'Go to this people and say, "{You will keep on hearing} and will never understand, and {you will keep on seeing} and will never perceive.

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles. They also will listen!"

always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."

But do you think this, O man who passes judgment on those who do such things, and who does the same [things], that you will escape the judgment of God?

who will reward each one according to his works:

[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

For it is not the hearers of the law [who are] righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

and know his will and approve the things that are superior, [because you] are instructed by the law,

Therefore, if the uncircumcised person follows the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision?

And the uncircumcised person by nature who carries out the law will judge you who, [though provided] with {the precise written code} and circumcision [are] a transgressor of the law.

{What is the result} if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, [will it]?

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

since God [is] one, who will justify {those who are circumcised} by faith and {those who are uncircumcised} through faith.

Blessed [is] the person against whom the Lord will never count sin."

who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."

For only rarely will someone die on behalf of a righteous person (for on behalf of a good person possibly someone might even dare to die),

Therefore, by much more, [because we] have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

For if, [while we] were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

For if by the trespass of the one [man], death reigned through the one [man], much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

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

For if we have become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be [identified with him 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 be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.

Wretched man [that] I [am]! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies 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 also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit [is], because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to [the will of] God.

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

Who will bring charges against God's elect? God [is] the one who justifies.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."

For the statement of the promise [is] this: "At this time I will return and {Sarah will have} a son."

not by works but by the one who calls--it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"

For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion."

Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will?

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?

As he also says in Hosea, "I will call those [who were] not my people, 'My people,' and those [who were] not loved, 'Loved.'

And it will be in the place where it was said to them, 'You [are] not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "[Even] if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved,

{for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively} upon the earth."

just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion {a stone that causes people to stumble}, and {a rock that causes them to fall}, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

But the righteousness from faith speaks like this: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down),

or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

that 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.

For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

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

How then will they call upon [him] in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe [in him] about whom they have not heard? And how will they hear about [him] without one who preaches [to them]?

And how will they preach, unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "How timely [are] the feet of those who bring good news of good things."

But I say, Israel did not know, did they? First, Moses says, "I will provoke you [to jealousy] by [those who are] not a nation; by a senseless nation I will provoke you [to anger]."

And if their trespass [means] riches for the world and their loss [means] riches for the Gentiles, how much more [will] their fullness [mean]?

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, [although you] were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree's richness,

Then you will say, "Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in."

For if God did not spare the {natural} branches, neither will he spare you.

See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God--if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off.

And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again.