You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

And I will display wonders in heaven above and signs on earth below, blood and fire and vapour of smoke:

My heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very flesh will rest in hope,

because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.

Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence.

"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, [get up and] walk!"

for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.

Any soul that will not listen to this prophet shall be exterminated from the People;

Peter said to her, "How could you arrange to put the Lord's Spirit to the proof? Listen, there are the footsteps of the men who have buried your husband! They are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."

So I advise you to-day to leave these men to themselves. Let them alone. If this project or enterprise springs from men, it will collapse;

whereas, if it really springs from God, you will be unable to put them down. You may even find yourselves fighting God!"

Brothers, look out seven of your own number, men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom. We will appoint them to this duty,

but we will continue to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word."

Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"

What God said was this: 'His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

But,' said God, 'I will pass sentence on the nation that has made them slaves, and then they will get away to worship me in this Place.'

I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you back to Egypt.'

(This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.')

They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'

No, it was the tent of Moloch and the star-symbol of Rephan your god that you carried, figures that you manufactured for worship. So now I will transport you beyond Babylon!

Get up and go into the city. There you will be told what you have to do."

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

which contained all quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth and wild birds.

and when I looked steadily at it, I noted the quadrupeds of the earth, the wild beasts, the creeping things and the wild birds.

he will tell you how you and all your household are to be saved.'

and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all good, full of all craft and all cunning, will you never stop diverting the straight paths of the Lord?

See here, the Lord's hand will fall on you, and you will be blind, unable for a time to see the sun." In a moment a dark mist fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to take him by the hand.

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not.

Hence in another psalm he says, thou wilt not let thy holy One suffer decay.

Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."

After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent, its ruins I will rebuild and erect it anew,

We therefore send Judas and Silas with the following message, which they will also give to you orally.

abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

he said goodbye to them, telling them, "I will come back to you, if it is the will of God." Then, sailing from Ephesus,

Now the danger is not only that we will have our trade discredited but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will fall into contempt and that she will be degraded from her majestic glory, she whom all Asia and the wide world worship."

Now here I go to Jerusalem under the binding force of the Spirit. What will befall me there, I do not know.

I know to-day that not one of you will ever see my face again ??not one of you among whom I moved as I preached the Reign.

I know that when I am gone, fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes.

and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

As he would not be persuaded, we acquiesced, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

What is to be done? They will be sure to hear you have arrived.

associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, pay their expenses so that they may be free to have their heads shaved, and then everybody will understand there is nothing in these stories about you, but that, on the contrary, you are guided by obedience to the Law.

Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips.

and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

At this Paul said to him, "You whitewashed wall, God will strike you! You sit there to judge me by the Law, do you? And you break the Law by ordering me to be struck!"

Now you and the Sanhedrin must inform the commander that you propose to investigate this case in detail, so that he may have Paul brought down to you. We will be all ready to kill him on the way down."

he said, "I will go into your case whenever your accusers arrive," giving orders that he was to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

Examine him for yourself and you will be able to find out about all these charges of ours against him."

As Felix had a pretty accurate knowledge of the Way, he remanded Paul, telling the Jews, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

As Festus wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, he asked Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"

I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you,

I now bid you cheer up. There will be no loss of life, only of the ship.

Cheer up, men! I believe God, I believe it will turn out just as I have been told.

Take some food then, I beg of you; it will keep you alive. You are going to be saved! Not a hair of your heads will perish."

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer! He has escaped the sea, but Justice will not let him live."

when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.'

Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

asking if I may at last be sped upon my way to you by God's will.

Very well; and do you imagine you will escape God's doom, O man, you who judge those who practise such vices and do the same yourself?

For he will render to everyone according to what he has done,

All who sin outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be condemned by the Law.

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted,

understanding his will, and with a sense of what is vital in religion; if you are instructed by the Law

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

Well then, there is one God, a God who will justify the circumcised as they believe and the uncircumcised on the score of faith.

Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count to him.

but for our sakes as well; faith will be counted to us as we believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Why, a man will hardly die for the just ??though one might bring oneself to die, if need be, for a good man.

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

Accordingly, she will be termed an adulteress if she becomes another man's while her husband is alive; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of 'the husband,' so that she is no adulteress if she becomes another man's.

Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

God will! Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! [Move second part of this vers to follow vs 23] (Thus, left to myself, I serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.)

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.

For creation was not rendered futile by its own choice, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject,

The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

who shall condemn? Will Christ? ??the Christ who died, yes and rose from the dead! the Christ who is at God's right hand, who actually pleads for us!

no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For when God said, I will come about this time and Sara shall have a son, that was a word of promise.

she was told that the elder will serve the younger.

God says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.

You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy.

"Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?"

As indeed he says in Hosea, Those who were no people of mine, I will call 'my People,' and her 'beloved' who was not beloved;

for the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with rigour and despatch.

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

But here is what faith-righteousness says: ??Say not in your heart, 'Who will go up to heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down).

Or, 'who will go down to the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ from the dead).

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