And Paul having demanded that he should be kept for the diagnosis of Augustus, I demanded that he should be kept until I shall send him to Caesar.

for it seems to me to be unreasonable, sending a prisoner, and not to signify charges against him.

And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul reaching forth his hand, proceeded with his defence:

And now for the hope of the promise which is from God to our fathers, I stand being judged:

and we all having fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against goads.

But rise up, and stand upon thy feet: for unto this have I appeared unto thee, to make thee a minister and a martyr both of those things which thou hast seen, and of which I will appear unto thee;

For the king, to whom I also speak boldly, knows concerning these things: for I am persuaded that nothing of these things is hidden; for this has not been done in a corner.

And the harbor being unsafe for spending the winter, most of them projected to the council to depart thence, if perchance they might be able, having arrived into Phoenix, to spend the winter there; a harbor of Crete, looking toward the southeast and the northeast.

and neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and there being no small tempest on us, finally all hope of saving us was taken away.

And now I exhort you to take courage: for there will be no loss of the life of you, except the ship.

For the angel of God, whose I am, and whom indeed I serve, stood by me this night,

saying, Fear not, Paul; for it behooveth thee to stand before Caesar: and, behold, God has given thee all those sailing along with thee.

Therefore cheer up, O men: for I believe God, that it shall be according to the manner which He has spoken to me.

Therefore I exhort you to take food: for this is for your safety: for not a hair of your head shall perish.

And having knocked off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders, and raising up the main sail to the blowing wind, they made for the shore.

And the barbarians extended no small philanthropy to us: for, having kindled a fire, they received us all to it, on account of the recent rain and cold.

and they were looking for him to be about to swell up and suddenly fall down dead. But having looked a long time, and seeing nothing out of place come to him, changing their minds, they said that he was a god.

and the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not having anything for which to accuse my nation.

Then for this cause I have called you, to see you, and talk to you: for on account of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

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

for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and they heard with their ears heavily, and closed their eyes; lest they may see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I shall heal them.

In the first place, indeed, I praise my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how I unceasingly make mention of you always in my prayer;

For I long to see you, in order that I may impart unto you a certain spiritual grace, that you may be established;

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in him from faith to faith: as has been written, But the just shall live by faith.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God has revealed it to them:

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are seen, being known by the things which are made, even His eternal power and divinity; so that they are without excuse:

who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore: amen.

On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature:

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one judging. For in whatsoever thou art judging another, thou art condemning thyself; for thou judging art doing the same things.

For we know that the judgment of God according to truth is against those doing such things.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For so many as sinned without law will also perish without law; and so many as sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

for the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when the Gentiles, not having the law, may by nature do the things of the law, they, not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

a teacher of the juveniles, having a form of knowledge and truth in the law;

For the name of God is blasphemed by you among the Gentiles, as has been written.

For circumcision indeed profits, if you do the law: but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Then if uncircumcision may keep the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is circumcision that which is outwardly in the flesh.

Much every way. For indeed, in the first place, the oracles of God were committed unto them.

For what if some did not believe? whether will their unbelief destroy the faith of God?

Then what? are we the better? By no means: for we have proven already that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

Therefore no flesh shall be justified by works of law: for through law there is a perfect knowledge of sin.

but the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ is unto all who believe: for there is no difference,

for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith without works of law.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has glorification; but not before God.

For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.

but to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Then does this blessedness come on the circumcision, or on the uncircumcision? for we say That faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

For the promise to Abraham or his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the heirs were by the law, faith has been made void, and the promise vitiated.

For the law works out wrath: for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Therefore it was indeed imputed unto him for righteousness.

who was delivered on account of our transgressions, and raised for our justification.

For we being yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly:

for scarcely will one die for a righteous man; for perhaps some one even dares to die for a good man.

And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if being enemies we are reconciled to God through the death of his Son; how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved through his life:

(for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed, there being no law;

But not as was the transgression, even so is the free gift: for if by the transgression of one many died, how much more by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, did the grace of God and the gift abound unto many!

And not as by the one having sinned, is the free gift; for indeed, judgment was from one unto condemnation, but the free gift is from many transgressions unto justification.

For if by the transgression of one death reigned through one; how much more shall those receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Christ Jesus!)

for as by the disobedience of one man many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of one man shall many be made righteous.

For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:

for the one having died has been made free from sin.

For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification.

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

What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,

Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live?

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.

For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Then what shall we say? is the law sin? It could not be so; but I did not know sin except through the law: for indeed I had not known lusts, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, did work in me all concupiscence; for without law sin was dead.

For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it slew me.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin.

For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate.

For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not:

for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do.

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man;

For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death.

For there was an impotency of the law, in which it was weak through depravity, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the sin of depravity and for sin, condemned sin in depravity:

For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit:

for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.

For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.

For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father.

For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of the creature awaits the revelation of the sons of God.

For the creature has been subordinated to mortality, not willingly, but through Him who subordinated it;

For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now;

and not only so, but we ourselves, having the earnest of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body.

For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees?