You have heard how I said to you, I go away and I am coming to you again. If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father, for My Father is greater than I.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they would not have had sin. But now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father.

They answered and said to him, If he were not an evildoer, then we would not have delivered him up to you.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight so that I might not be delivered to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here.

Truly, truly, I say to you, When you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wished. But when you grow old, you shall stretch forth your hands and another shall gird you and carry you where you do not wish.

And there are also many things, whatever Jesus did, which, if they should be written singly, I suppose the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.

"And it shall be in the last days, says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit upon his throne,

seeing this beforehand, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor would His flesh see corruption,

For the man on whom this miracle of healing occurred was more than forty years old.

And He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not even a foot-breadth. And He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.

And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

For he thought his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance by his hand. But they did not understand.

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him away and turned back again to Egypt in their hearts,

in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the heaven.

When I had fastened my eyes on it, I looked and saw four-footed animals of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and birds of the heaven.

And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you.

Also some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing Mnason, a certain Cypriot, an old disciple with whom we were to lodge.

And when it became day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Now therefore you, with the sanhedrin, inform the chiliarch that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly regarding him. And we are ready to put him to death before he comes near.

And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they would inquire something more exactly about him.

But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.

This man was taken by the Jews and would have been killed by them. Then I came with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.

He also hoped that silver would be given him by Paul, that he might free him. Therefore he also frequently sent for him and talked with him.

asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.

Then indeed Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea; he himself would depart shortly.

And because I was perplexed about this question, I asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and be judged there about these matters.

And Agrippa said to Festus, I also would like to hear the man myself. And he said, Tomorrow you shall hear him.

who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And Paul said, I would pray to God, both in a little and in much, that not only you, but also all hearing me today to become as I also am, except for these bonds.

And running under an islet being called Clauda, we hardly were able to become masters of the boat;

And neither sun nor stars appearing in many days, and no small tempest pressing hard, now all hope that we would be saved was taken away.

And fearing that we would fall on rocks, and casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished day to come.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.

For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one.

knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,

For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more these being according to nature will be grafted into their own olive-tree?

For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.

which none of the rulers of this world knew (for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory).

Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

Therefore let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For I would that all men were even as I myself am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; else your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.

If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?

And if they were all one member, where would be the body?

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

But I determined this within myself, that I would not come to you again in grief.

(But their thoughts were blinded; for until the present the same veil remains on the reading of the old covenant, not taken away.) But this veil has been done away in Christ.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

for us to call on Titus, that even as he began before, so he would also complete this grace to you also.

I say this lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of blessing, and not as of covetousness.

I would that you were bearing with me a little in foolishness; but indeed bear with me.

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

This only I would learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations through faith, preached the gospel before to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all nations be blessed."

Is the Law then against the promises of God? Let it not be said! For if a law had been given which could have given life, indeed righteousness would have been out of Law.

What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me.

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

For to them God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.

Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.

But refuse profane and old-womanish tales, and exercise yourself to godliness.

Do not let a widow be enrolled having become less than sixty years old, the wife of one man,

They shall perish, but You will remain. And they shall all become old as a garment,

For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law,

For if that first covenant had been without fault, then no place would have been sought for the second.

In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old is ready to vanish away.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets,

Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that is unprofitable for you.

Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.

And He did not spare the old world, but saved Noah the eighth one, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than fully knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

For this is hidden from them by their willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the Word of God,

Brothers, I do not write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which you have heard from the beginning.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.

Therefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, ranting against us with evil words. And not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brothers. And he forbids those who would, and casts them out of the church.

For certain men crept in secretly, those having been of old previously written into this condemnation, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.