but had certain questions against him concerning their own religion; and of one Jesus that was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

The next day therefore, Agrippa and Bernice coming with much pomp, and entering into the court, together with the chief officers, and men of greatest eminence in the city, at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.

And now I stand arraigned for the hope of the promise which was made by God to our fathers:

On which accounts as I was going to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests---at mid-day,

O king, as I was on the way thither I saw a light from heaven exceeding the splendor of the sun, shining round about me and those that were going with me.

Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:

And as he was saying these things in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning turns thy brain.

For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with freedom; because I am persuaded that none of them are unknown to him; for this was not done in a corner.

Now as it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan cohort.

And passing it with difficulty, we came to a place called the Fair-havens, near to which was the city of Lasea.

And as much time was spent, and sailing was now dangerous, (for the fast was now past,) Paul exhorted them,

And as neither sun nor stars appeared for several days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.

Wherefore, Sirs, be of good courage; for I trust in God, that it shall be so, according as it was told me.

And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the mariners thought they drew near to some land:

And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take some food, saying, Fourteen days this day ye continue waiting without proper food, having taken nothing:

And when it was day, they did not know the land near them: but they perceived a certain creek with a shore, into which they were desirous, if they could, to have thrust the ship.

But falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship a-ground; and the fore-part stuck fast, and remained immoveable, but the hinder part was dashed in pieces by the violence of the waves.

And the counsel of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, least any of them should swim out and escape.

And when they were safe on shore, they understood, that the island was called Melita.

They however were expecting that he would swell, or suddenly fall down dead: but when they had waited a good while, and saw no hurt come to him, they changed their opinion and said that he was a god.

Now in the parts adjacent to this place was the seat of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius, who took us into his house, and entertained us three days courteously.

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was permitted to live by himself with the soldier that had him in custody.

And after three days Paul called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were come together, he said unto them, Brethren, though I have done nothing against the people of the Jews, or the customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

who when they had examined me, would have set me at liberty, because there was no crime worthy of death found in me:

but the Jews opposing it, I was obliged to appeal to Cesar; though not as having any thing to accuse my nation of.

who was of the seed of David according to the flesh,

so that they are inexcusable; because having thus known God they glorified Him not as God, neither were they thankful; but were infatuated by their own reasonings, and their heart being void of understanding was darkened.

for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

Now is this blessedness upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

How then was it accounted to him? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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

who against hope believed, with hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."

He hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief: but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

and being fully persuaded, that what was promised He was able to perform:

and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Now it was not written on his account only, that it was imputed to him:

who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

for sin was in the world before the law. Now sin is not imputed where there is no law;

and yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the type of Him that was to come.

For the gift is not as the sentence was by one that sinned; for the sentence is passed from one offence to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences to justification.

Therefore as by the offence of one the effect of it was upon all men to condemnation: so also by the righteousness of one, the effect was upon all men to justification of life.

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:

But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:

But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead.

And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:

and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.

Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good: that sin might be shewn by the commandment to be exceeding sinful.

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

(for the world was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through him who made it subject:)

(when the children were not yet born, nor had done either good or evil, that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not on account of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said to her, the elder shall serve the younger:

As He saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.

And in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God.

and Esaias positively affirms, "I was found of them that sought me not, I was made manifest to them that asked not after me:"

For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

Now Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the manifestation of the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers:

but as it is written, They, to whom nothing was said concerning Him, shall see, and they who have not heard, shall understand.

Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, (conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret in former times,

(even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you;)

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And my discourse, and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new mass, without leaven. For our paschal lamb, even Christ, was slain for us.

In the calling in which every one was called, let him continue.

Wast thou called being a slave, be not anxious about it; but if thou canst be made free, prefer it.

Brethren, in whatever condition every one was when called, let him abide therein with God.

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and that rock was an emblem of Christ.

But with the greater part of them God was displeased: for they were destroyed in the wilderness.

For the man was not of the woman; but the woman was taken out of the man:

nor was the man created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the man.

For as the woman was originally from the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are from God.

but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her; because the hair was given her as for a veil.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread:

But God hath so blended the several parts of the body, giving greater honor to that which was deficient,

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside childish things.

and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures.

And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:

Afterwards He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his favor to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

And so it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." But the last Adam is an enlivening spirit.

The first man being made out of the earth, was earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Such as the earthy was, such are they also that are earthy: and such, as is the heavenly, are they also that are heavenly.

I much importuned him to come to you with the brethren: but he was not at all willing to come now; though he will come when he has a favorable opportunity.

I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus: for what was wanting in you, they have made up.

Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no?

But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no.

For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay,

but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us:

So that when I came to Troas on account of the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me in the Lord,

Now if the ministration of death which was in writing, and engraven on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly on the face of Moses, because of the lustre of his countenance, which was to be taken away:

For if the ministration of condemnation was so glorious, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory:

since what was then made glorious was not in comparison glorious, because of the glory that surpasseth it.

For if that, which was to be taken away, came with glory, much more that which abideth is glorious.

and do not as Moses, who put a veil upon his face, intimating that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which was to be abolished; but their minds were blinded:

to declare, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

and not only by his coming, but especially by the consolation wherewith he was comforted on your account, acquainting us with your earnest desire towards us, your grief, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced greatly.

For though I grieved you by my letter, I do not repent, though I did repent; for I perceive that that epistle grieved you, though it was but for a little while.

Wherefore if I wrote in such a manner to you, it was not merely on his account who had done the wrong, nor for his sake who had been injured; but that our care for you in the sight of God might be manifested among you.

We were therefore comforted by your consolation; and rejoiced the more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all;

and because if I boasted of any thing to him concerning you, I was not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so likewise our boasting of you to Titus was truth.