Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.

They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

They were about twelve men in all.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.

They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.

When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

"Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

When I couldn't see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.

Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.

After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came, and were cured.

where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.

It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

You will say then, "Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in."

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.