and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.

(and we were -- all the souls in the ship -- two hundred, seventy and six),

and having eaten sufficient nourishment, they were lightening the ship, casting forth the wheat into the sea.

And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,

and the anchors having taken up, they were committing it to the sea, at the same time -- having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind -- they were making for the shore,

and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting it a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing their minds, said he was a god.

And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge us;

this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;

who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail -- they were lading us with the things that were necessary.

where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;

who, having examined me, were wishing to release me, because of their being no cause of death in me,

and, some, indeed, were believing the things spoken, and some were not believing.

And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word -- 'Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

much in every way; for first, indeed, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God;

for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

'Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?

(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, 'Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

faithful is God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;

and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,

ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

If the whole body were an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

and if all were one member, where the body?

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --

for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind -- it is to you,

in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, 'Be ye reconciled to God;'

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

because, according to their power, I testify, and above their power, they were willing of themselves,

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing it,

and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say it -- I also am bold.

The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

and only they were hearing, that 'he who is persecuting us then, doth now proclaim good news -- the faith that then he was wasting;'

and they were glorifying God in me.

And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed,

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

Ye were running well; who did hinder you -- not to obey the truth?

For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss;

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,