And coming to us, he took up Paul's girdle, and binding his own feet and hands, said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose girdle this is, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Therefore do this that we say to thee: there are with us four men, who have a vow on them:

Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them; and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they ceased from beating Paul.

And they that were with me, saw the light, and were terrified; but they did not hear the voice of him that spake to me, And I said, What shall I do, Lord?

And as I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand by them that were with me, I came into Damascus.

And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, to know his will, and see that Just one, and hear the voice of his mouth.

I was in a trance, And saw him saying to me, Make haste and depart quickly out of Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and ordered him to be examined by scourging, that he might know, for what cause they cried so against him.

But they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?

For the Saducees say, there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said, Be of good courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must testify at Rome also.

But Paul's sister's son, hearing of the ambush, came, and entering into the castle, told Paul.

So he took and led him to the tribune, and said, Paul the prisoner, calling me to him, desired me, to bring this young man to thee, who hath something to tell thee.

So the tribune dismissed the young man, having charged him, Tell no man, that thou hast discovered these things to me.

And when it was shewn me, that an ambush was about to be laid for the man by the Jews, I immediately sent him to thee, commanding his accusers also, to say before thee what they have against him. Farewel.

And being informed, that he was of Cilicia, I will give thee, said he, a thorough hearing, when thy accusers also are come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's palace.

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

that after the way, which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Or let these themselves say, what crime they found in me, when I stood before the council,

Then said Paul, I am standing at Cesar's judgment-seat, where I ought to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as thou also very well knowest.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all ye who are present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out, that he ought not to live any longer.

with authority and commission from the chief priests, At mid-day, O king, I saw in the way, a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round me and them that journeyed with me.

And having sailed through the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

Which having taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they struck sail, and so were driven.

But after long abstinence, Paul standing in the midst of them, said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, and so have avoided this injury and loss.

And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, the sailors suspected, that they drew nigh some land.

But when the sailors were attempting to flee out of the ship, and had let down the boat into the sea, under pretence that they were going to carry out anchors from the ship-head,

And when they were satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.

And having taken up the anchors, they committed it to the sea, at the same time loosing the rudder-bands, and hoisting up the stay-sail to the wind, they made for the shore.

But the centurion, being desirous to save Paul, hindered them from their purpose, and commanded those that could swim, throwing themselves into the sea, first to get away to land,

And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship; and so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.

And when the barbarians saw the venomous animal hanging on his hand, they said one to another, Doubtless this man is a murderer, whom though he hath escaped the sea, vengeance hath not suffered to live.

Where finding brethren, we were intreated to tarry with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome.

And the brethren having heard of us, came out thence to meet us, some as far as Appii Forum, and others to the Three Taverns, whom when Paul saw, he thanked God and took courage.

For this cause therefore have I intreated, to see and speak with you; for it is on account of the hope of Israel, that I am bound with this chain.

Saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift,

For those things of him which are invisible, both his eternal power and Godhead, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things which are made, so that they are without excuse:

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who taketh vengeance?

And why may we not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm us to say) do evil, that good may come? Whose damnation is just.

I say, of his righteousness in this present time, that he might be just, and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.

What shall we say then? That our father Abraham hath found according to the flesh?

So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:

Cometh this happiness then on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

And not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, being about an hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

And not only so, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, even so death passed upon all men, in that all had sinned.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Yet not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if by the offence of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, that of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

And not as the loss by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the sentence was by one offence to condemnation; but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

For if through one man's offence death reigned by one, they who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall much more reign in life, by one, even Jesus Christ.

As therefore by one offence the sentence of death came upon all men to condemnation, so also by one righteousness the free gift came upon all men to justification of life.

For as by the disobedience of one man, many were constituted sinners, so by the obedience of one, many shall be constituted righteous.

That as sin had reigned through death, so grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

What shall we say then? We will continue in sin that grace may abound?

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

So reckon ye also yourselves to be dead to sin, and alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. As ye have presented your members servants to uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity, so now present your members servants of righteousness, unto holiness.

Therefore if she marry another man while her husband liveth, she will be called an adultress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so as to be no adultress, though she marry another man.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

But now we are freed from the law, that whereby we were held being dead, so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid: But sin: so that it appeared sin, working death in me by that which is good: so that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my members.

Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But if we hope for what we see not, we patiently wait for it.

What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not; my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost?

What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid.

So then he hath mercy on whom he willeth, and whom he willeth, he hardneth.

But thou wilt say to me, Why doth he still find fault?

For who hath resisted his will? Nay, but who art thou, O man, that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Isaiah likewise crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant only shall be saved.

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith:

But the righteousness which is by faith speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven, (that is, to bring Christ down:)

But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily; their voice is gone into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

But I say, Hath not Israel known? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are not a nation; by a foolish nation I will anger you.

I say then, Hath God rejected his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And so likewise at the present time, there is a remnant, according to the election of grace.

According as it is written, God hath given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this day.

Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid. But by their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

For if the first-fruits be holy, so is the lump: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Sion, and shall turn away iniquity from Jacob.

So these also have now been disobedient, that through your mercy they may likewise find mercy.

And I say, through the grace which is given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think, but to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God hath distributed to every one.

So we being many are one body in Christ, and every one members of each other.

Therefore if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Who art thou that judgest another's servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be upheld; for God is able to establish him.

Whether therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Now I say, Christ Jesus was a servant of the circumcision, for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:

by the power of the Spirit, so that I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ, from Jerusalem round about, as far as Illyricum.