And the passage of Scripture which he was reading, was this; As a sheep is led to slaughter, and as a lamb before one that shears him is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

And Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus who appeared to you on the way which you came, that you may receive sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

And there was at Joppa a certain female disciple called Tabitha, which being interpreted is called, Dorcas; she was full of good works and charities which she bestowed.

And Peter arose and came with them; and when he had come they led him into the upper room, and all the widows stood by weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

AND a certain man at Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort which was called the Italian,

in which were all the quadrupeds and reptiles of the earth, and birds of heaven.

And while Peter doubted with himself what the vision which he had seen meant, behold, even [then] the men sent by Cornelius, having inquired for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

And Peter went down to the men and said, Behold, I am the man whom you seek; what is the cause for which you have come?

Immediately therefore I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things which God has commanded you.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of peace by Jesus Christ,??e is Lord of all,??37 you know; the word which was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism which John preached,

and we are witnesses of all things which he did, both in the land of Judea, and at Jerusalem, whom also they killed, hanging him on a cross.

And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I was, being sent for me from Caesarea.

who will speak words to you by which you shall be saved and all your house.

And those scattered abroad by the affliction which commenced with Stephen, went even to Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but Jews only.

and one of them, by the name of Agabus, standing up signified by the spirit that a great famine was about to come on all the world; which also came under Claudius Caesar.

which they also did, sending to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

And going out he followed him, and knew not that it was real which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.

And passing through the first guard, and the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of itself, and going out they went forward one street, and immediately the angel left him.

And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

For those living at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him and the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning [him];

and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Behold, despisers, and wonder and perish, for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall by no means believe even if one declares it to you.

And the priest of the Jupiter which was before the city brought bulls and garlands to the gates, and wished to offer sacrifices with the multitudes.

and thence sailed to Antioch, whence they had been commended to the favor of God for the work which they performed.

Now, therefore, why do you try God, to put on the necks of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we could bear?

After this will I return and build up the tabernacle of David which had fallen down, and rebuild its ruins, and set it up,

that you should abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.

AND after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return and visit the brothers in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, [and see] how they do.

And when he went through the cities he gave them the ordinances to observe which had been determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.

and thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony. And we spent some days in that city.

and preach customs which it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.

And laying hold of him they brought him to the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is taught by you?

For as I passed through, and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to you.

because he has appointed a day in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness, by the man whom he has appointed, giving assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion, saying that things which are made by hands are not gods.

And not only this work of ours is in danger of coming into contempt, but even the temple of the great goddess Diana of being set at nought, and her majesty also which all Asia and the world worships, of being destroyed.

For we are in danger of being called to account for the tumult of to-day, there being no cause by which we can excuse this concourse.

And behold now, I go constrained by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things which shall befall me there,

But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

grieving most of all for the word which he said, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

Do this, therefore, which we tell you. We have four men having a vow upon them;

take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may shave their heads, and all will know that the information which they have of you is not correct, but that you walk also yourself keeping the law.

And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told you of all things which are appointed for you to do.

and wishing to know the cause for which they accuse him, I took him down to their Sanhedrim,

from whom you will be able to learn by examination of all these things of which we accuse him.

neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

But this I confess to you, that in the way which they call a heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things written in the law and the prophets,

having a hope in God which they also hold, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and wicked.

in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult,

except in this one statement which I made, as I stood among them, that I am under trial by you to-day concerning the resurrection of the dead.

And when he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and weighty accusations which they could not prove,

If indeed I have done wrong or committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if those things of which they accuse me are nothing, no man may give me up to them; I appeal to Caesar.

I think myself happy, King Agrippa, in being allowed to make my defense before you to-day in respect to all things of which I am accused by the Jews,

which our twelve tribes, serving God continually, day and night, hope to attain; of this hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

which I also did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my vote against them.

In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with authority, and a commission from the chief priests,

But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of visions ] in which I will appear to you,

And going on board of a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places in Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us;

and sailing by it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which is the city Lasea.

And the harbor being inconvenient to winter in, the greater part advised to depart thence, and, if they were able, to come to Phenice to winter, a harbor of Crete, which opens to the South and Southwest.

And when it was day they did not know the land, but they perceived a bay having a shore, on which they wished if possible to thrust the ship.

And the barbarians showed us no ordinary humanity; for kindling a fire they received us all, on account of the rain which was falling, and the cold.

but the Jews opposing it I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; not that I have any thing of which to accuse my nation.

And some believed the things which were spoken, and others believed not;

PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,

For his invisible [attributes] are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things which are made, even his eternal power and deity, so that they have no defense,

Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,

and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,

Wherefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge, for in that in which you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

for when the nations which have not the law perform by nature [the commandments] of the law, these who have not the law are a law to themselves,

and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision.

But that which is in secret is the Jew, and circumcision of the heart is in the spirit not in the writing, the commendation of which is not of men but of God.

And he received the symbol of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he became the father of all that believe in uncircumcision, that righteousness may also be accounted to them,

and a father of circumcision not to those of the circumcision only, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which was in uncircumcision.

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many;

For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God.

But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,

What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death.

Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment.

for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do.

But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me.

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

For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory,

What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith;

But what does it say? The word is nigh you, in your mouth and in your mind; that is, the word of the faith which we preach.

But I say, did not Israel know? First, Moses says, I will provoke you by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish nation will I excite you to anger.

and be not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove what is the will of God which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil, adhere to that which is good,

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.

Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which edify one another.

it is good not to eat meat nor drink wine, nor [do] any thing by which your brother stumbles.