21:1And after parting from them, we put out to sea and came straight to Cos, and the day after to Rhodes, and from there to Patara: 21:2And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it. 21:3And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out. 21:4And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem. 21:5And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea, 21:6We said our last words to one another, and got into the ship, and they went back to their houses. 21:7And journeying by ship from Tyre we came to Ptolemais; and there we had talk with the brothers and were with them for one day. 21:8And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven. 21:9And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets. 21:10And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea. 21:11And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles. 21:12And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem. 21:13Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 21:14And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done. 21:15And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem. 21:16And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living. 21:17And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us. 21:18And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present. 21:19And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles. 21:20And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law: 21:21And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules. 21:22What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come. 21:23Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath; 21:24Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law. 21:25But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body. 21:26Then Paul took the men, and on the day after, making himself clean with them, he went into the Temple, giving out the statement that the days necessary for making them clean were complete, till the offering was made for every one of them. 21:27And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the Temple, got the people together and put their hands on him, 21:28Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean. 21:29For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple. 21:30And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut. 21:31And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control. 21:32And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul. 21:33Then the chief captain came near and took him, and gave orders for him to be put in chains, questioning them as to who he was and what he had done. 21:34And some said one thing and some another, among the people: and as he was not able to get a knowledge of the facts because of the noise, he gave orders for Paul to be taken into the army building. 21:35And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people; 21:36For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him! 21:37And when Paul was about to be taken into the building, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to you? And he said, Have you a knowledge of Greek? 21:38Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land? 21:39But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people. 21:40And when he let him do so, Paul, from the steps, made a sign with his hand to the people, and when they were all quiet, he said to them in the Hebrew language,
22:1My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you. 22:2And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said, 22:3I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today. 22:4And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison. 22:5Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment. 22:6And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me. 22:7And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? 22:8And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking. 22:9And those who were with me saw the light, but the voice of him who was talking to me came not to their ears. 22:10And I said, What have I to do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up, and go into Damascus; and it will be made clear to you what you have to do. 22:11And because I was unable to see because of the glory of that light, those who were with me took me by the hand, and so I came to Damascus. 22:12And one Ananias, a God-fearing man, who kept the law, and of whom all the Jews in that place had a high opinion, 22:13Came to my side and said, Brother Saul, let your eyes be open. And in that very hour I was able to see him. 22:14And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth. 22:15For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears. 22:16And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name. 22:17And it came about that when I had come back to Jerusalem, while I was at prayer in the Temple, my senses became more than naturally clear, 22:18And I saw him saying to me, Go out of Jerusalem straight away because they will not give hearing to your witness about me. 22:19And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you: 22:20And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death. 22:21And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles. 22:22And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living. 22:23And while they were crying out, and pulling off their clothing, and sending dust into the air, 22:24The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him. 22:25And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged? 22:26And hearing this, the man went to the chief captain and gave him an account of it, saying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman. 22:27And the chief captain came to him and said, Give me an answer, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes. 22:28And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth. 22:29Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him. 22:30But on the day after, desiring to have certain knowledge of what the Jews had to say against him, he made him free, and gave orders for the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and he took Paul and put him before them.
23:1And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day. 23:2And the high priest, Ananias, gave orders to those who were near him to give him a blow on the mouth. 23:3Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law? 23:4And those who were near said, Do you say such words against God's high priest? 23:5And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not say evil about the ruler of your people. 23:6But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead. 23:7And when he had said this, there was an argument between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and a division in the meeting. 23:8For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these. 23:9And there was a great outcry: and some of the scribes on the side of the Pharisees got up and took part in the discussion, saying, We see no evil in this man: what if he has had a revelation from an angel or a spirit? 23:10And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in two by them, gave orders to the armed men to take him by force from among them, and take him into the army building. 23:11And the night after, the Lord came to his side and said, Be of good heart, for as you have been witnessing for me in Jerusalem, so will you be my witness in Rome. 23:12And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death. 23:13And more than forty of them took this oath. 23:14And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death 23:15So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death. 23:16But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news of it to Paul. 23:17And Paul sent for a captain and said, Take this young man to your chief, for he has news for him. 23:18So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you. 23:19And the chief took him by the hand and, going on one side, said to him privately, What is it you have to say to me? 23:20And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail. 23:21But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order. 23:22So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things. 23:23And he sent for two captains and said, Make ready two hundred men, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, to go to Caesarea, at the third hour of the night: 23:24And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler. 23:25And he sent a letter in these words: 23:26Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you. 23:27This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman. 23:28And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin: 23:29Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against him which might be a reason for prison or death. 23:30And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you. 23:31So the armed men, as they were ordered, took Paul and came by night to Antipatris. 23:32But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place: 23:33And they, when they came to Caesarea, gave the letter to the ruler, and took Paul before him. 23:34And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was from Cilicia, 23:35I will give hearing to your cause, he said, when those who are against you have come. And he gave orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.
24:1And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came with certain of the rulers, and an expert talker, one Tertullus; and they made a statement to Felix against Paul. 24:2And when he had been sent for, Tertullus, starting his statement, said, Because by you we are living in peace, and through your wisdom wrongs are put right for this nation, 24:3In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix. 24:4But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement. 24:5For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes: 24:6Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took, 24:7[] 24:8And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him. 24:9And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so. 24:10Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer: 24:11Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship; 24:12And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town: 24:13And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now. 24:14But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets: 24:15Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers. 24:16And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men. 24:17Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation: 24:18And having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia, 24:19And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me. 24:20Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin, 24:21But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead. 24:22But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business. 24:23And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him. 24:24But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was of the Jews by birth, and sent for Paul, and gave hearing to him about faith in Christ Jesus. 24:25And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you. 24:26For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him. 24:27But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.
25:1So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 25:2And the chief priests and the chief men of the Jews made statements against Paul, 25:3Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way. 25:4But Festus, in answer, said that Paul was being kept in prison at Caesarea, and that in a short time he himself was going there. 25:5So, he said, let those who have authority among you go with me, and if there is any wrong in the man, let them make a statement against him. 25:6And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul. 25:7And when he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem came round him, and made all sorts of serious statements against him, which were not supported by the facts. 25:8Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar. 25:9But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things? 25:10And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see. 25:11If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar. 25:12Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go. 25:13Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus. 25:14And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix: 25:15Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him. 25:16To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him. 25:17So, when they had come together here, straight away, on the day after, I took my place on the judge's seat and sent for the man. 25:18But when they got up they said nothing about such crimes as I had in mind: 25:19But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living. 25:20And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there. 25:21But when Paul made a request that he might be judged by Caesar, I gave orders for him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar. 25:22And Agrippa said to Festus, I have a desire to give the man a hearing myself. Tomorrow, he said, you may give him a hearing. 25:23So on the day after, when Agrippa and Bernice in great glory had come into the public place of hearing, with the chief of the army and the chief men of the town, at the order of Festus, Paul was sent for. 25:24And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those who are present here with us, you see this man, about whom all the Jews have made protests to me, at Jerusalem and in this place, saying that it is not right for him to be living any longer. 25:25But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him. 25:26But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing. 25:27For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.
26:1And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying: 26:2In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me: 26:3The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end. 26:4All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem; 26:5And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law. 26:6And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers; 26:7For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king! 26:8Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again? 26:9For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 26:10And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them. 26:11And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns. 26:12Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests, 26:13In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me. 26:14And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you. 26:15And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking. 26:16But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me; 26:17And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 26:18To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me. 26:19So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven; 26:20But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart. 26:21For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death. 26:22And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about; 26:23That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles. 26:24And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced. 26:25Then Paul said, I am not off my head, most noble Festus, but my words are true and wise. 26:26For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret. 26:27King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have. 26:28And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian. 26:29And Paul said, It is my prayer to God that, in little or great measure, not only you, but all those hearing me today might be even as I am, but for these chains. 26:30And the king and the ruler and Bernice and those who were seated with them got up; 26:31And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison. 26:32And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar.
27:1And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band. 27:2And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. 27:3And on the day after, we came to Sidon; and Julius was kind to Paul, and let him go to see his friends and take a rest. 27:4And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us. 27:5And having gone across the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra, in Lycia. 27:6And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it. 27:7And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone; 27:8And sailing down the side of it, as well as we were able, we came to a certain place named Fair Havens, near which was the town of Lasea. 27:9And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them, 27:10Saying, Friends, I see that this journey will be one of great damage and loss, not only to the goods and the ship, but to ourselves. 27:11But the captain gave more attention to the master and the owner of the ship than to what Paul said. 27:12And as the harbour was not a good one in which to be for the winter, the greater number of them were for going out to sea, in order, if possible, to put in for the winter at Phoenix, a harbour of Crete, looking to the north-east and south-east. 27:13And when the south wind came softly, being of the opinion that their purpose might be effected, they let the ship go and went sailing down the side of Crete, very near to the land. 27:14But after a little time, a very violent wind, named Euraquilo, came down from it with great force. 27:15And when the ship got into the grip of it, and was not able to make headway into the wind, we gave way, and went before it. 27:16And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe: 27:17And having got it up, they put cords under and round the ship; but fearing that they might be pushed on to the Syrtis, they let down the sails and so went running before the wind. 27:18And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship; 27:19And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side. 27:20And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone. 27:21And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss. 27:22But now, I say to you, be of good heart, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship. 27:23For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am, 27:24Saying, Have no fear, Paul, for you will come before Caesar, and God has given to you all those who are sailing with you. 27:25And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me. 27:26But we will be sent on to a certain island. 27:27But when the fourteenth day came, while we were going here and there in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the sailors had an idea that they were getting near land; 27:28And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet. 27:29Then, fearing that by chance we might come on to the rocks, they let down four hooks from the back of the ship, and made prayers for the coming of day. 27:30Then the sailors made attempts secretly to get away from the ship, letting down a boat as if they were about to put down hooks from the front of the ship; 27:31But Paul said to the captain and his men, If you do not keep these men in the ship, you will not be safe. 27:32Then the armed men, cutting the cords of the boat, let her go. 27:33And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food. 27:34So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction. 27:35And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread. 27:36Then they all took heart and did the same. 27:37And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons. 27:38And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea. 27:39And when it was day, they had no knowledge of the land, but they saw an inlet of the sea with a floor of sand, and they had the idea of driving the ship up on to it if possible. 27:40So cutting away the hooks, and letting them go into the sea, and freeing the cords of the guiding-blades, and lifting up the sail to the wind, they went in the direction of the inlet. 27:41And coming to a point between two seas, they got the ship to land; and the front part was fixed in the sand and not able to be moved, but the back part was broken by the force of the waves. 27:42Then the armed men were for putting the prisoners to death, so that no one would get away by swimming. 27:43But the captain, desiring to keep Paul safe, kept them from their purpose, and gave orders that those who had knowledge of swimming were to go off the ship and get first to land: 27:44And the rest, some on boards and some on things from the ship. And so it came about that they all got safe to land.
28:1And when we were safe, we made the discovery that the island was named Melita. 28:2And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold. 28:3But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand. 28:4And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living. 28:5But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage. 28:6But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god. 28:7Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days. 28:8And the father of Publius was ill, with a disease of the stomach; to whom Paul went, and put his hands on him, with prayer, and made him well. 28:9And when this took place, all the others in the island who had diseases came and were made well. 28:10Then they gave us great honour, and, when we went away, they put into the ship whatever things we were in need of. 28:11And after three months we went to sea in a ship of Alexandria sailing under the sign of the Dioscuri, which had been at the island for the winter. 28:12And going into the harbour at Syracuse, we were waiting there for three days. 28:13And from there, going about in a curve, we came to Rhegium: and after one day a south wind came up and on the day after we came to Puteoli: 28:14Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome. 28:15And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart. 28:16And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him. 28:17Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans. 28:18Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me. 28:19But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation. 28:20But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains. 28:21And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you. 28:22But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked. 28:23And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening. 28:24And some were in agreement with what he said, but some had doubts. 28:25And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, 28:26Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: 28:27For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well. 28:28Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing. 28:29[] 28:30And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him, 28:31Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ without fear, and no orders were given that he was not to do so.
Romans
1:1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news, 1:2Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings, 1:3About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David, 1:4But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord, 1:5Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name: 1:6Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ: 1:7To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1:8First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world. 1:9For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers, 1:10And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you. 1:11For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong; 1:12That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me. 1:13You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations. 1:14I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning. 1:15For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome. 1:16For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek. 1:17For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith. 1:18For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing; 1:19Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. 1:20For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing: 1:21Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. 1:22Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, 1:23And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. 1:24For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: 1:25Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. 1:26For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: 1:27And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing. 1:28And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; 1:29Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; 1:30Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother, 1:31Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy: 1:32Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.
2:1So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things. 2:2And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things. 2:3But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you? 2:4Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart? 2:5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness; 2:6Who will give to every man his right reward: 2:7To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: 2:8But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, 2:9Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek; 2:10But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek: 2:11For one man is not different from another before God. 2:12All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law; 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers: 2:14For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves; 2:15Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval; 2:16In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ. 2:17But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God, 2:18And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law, 2:19In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark, 2:20A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true; 2:21You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours? 2:22You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God? 2:23You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law? 2:24For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings. 2:25It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not. 2:26If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision? 2:27And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision. 2:28The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 2:29But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
3:1How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision? 3:2Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them. 3:3And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect? 3:4In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged. 3:5But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)? 3:6In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world? 3:7But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner? 3:8Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment. 3:9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin; 3:10As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness; 3:11Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God; 3:12They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one: 3:13Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips: 3:14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words: 3:15Their feet are quick in running after blood; 3:16Destruction and trouble are in their ways; 3:17And of the way of peace they have no knowledge: 3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes. 3:19Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: 3:20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 3:21But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets; 3:22That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another, 3:23For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God; 3:24And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: 3:25Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment; 3:26And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus. 3:27What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith. 3:28For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law. 3:29Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles: 3:30If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision. 3:31Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
4:1What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got? 4:2For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God. 4:3But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness. 4:4Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt. 4:5But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness. 4:6As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying, 4:7Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered. 4:8Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord. 4:9Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness. 4:10How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it: 4:11And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; 4:12And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision. 4:13For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 4:14For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power; 4:15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken. 4:16For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 4:17(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were. 4:18Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be. 4:19And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children: 4:20Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God, 4:21And being certain that God was able to keep his word. 4:22For which reason it was put to his account as righteousness. 4:23Now, it was not because of him only that this was said, 4:24But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead, 4:25Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.
5:1For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 5:2Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God. 5:3And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting; 5:4And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: 5:5And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us. 5:6For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers. 5:7Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life. 5:8But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us. 5:9Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him. 5:10For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life; 5:11And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God. 5:12For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: 5:13Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken. 5:14But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come. 5:15But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men. 5:16And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number. 5:17For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ. 5:18So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men. 5:19Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man. 5:20And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: 5:21That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:1What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace? 6:2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer? 6:3Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death? 6:4We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life. 6:5For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again; 6:6Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin. 6:7Because he who is dead is free from sin. 6:8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him; 6:9Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him. 6:10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God. 6:11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. 6:12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires; 6:13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God. 6:14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace. 6:15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so. 6:16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness. 6:17But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; 6:18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness. 6:19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. 6:20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. 6:21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. 6:22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life. 6:23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
7:1Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living? 7:2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband. 7:3So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man. 7:4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God. 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death. 7:6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter. 7:7What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's. 7:8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 7:9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; 7:10And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 7:11For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law. 7:12But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good. 7:13Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil. 7:14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin. 7:15And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do. 7:16But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good. 7:17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me. 7:18For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right. 7:19For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do. 7:20But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me. 7:21So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me. 7:22In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God, 7:23But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh. 7:24How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death? 7:25I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
8:1For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners. 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 8:3For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh: 8:4So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit. 8:5For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit. 8:6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: 8:7Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be: 8:8So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God. 8:9You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his. 8:10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 8:11But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death. 8:12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh: 8:13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life. 8:14And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 8:15For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father. 8:16The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God: 8:17And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory. 8:18I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future. 8:19For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God. 8:20For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope 8:21That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory. 8:22For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now. 8:23And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies. 8:24For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees? 8:25But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it. 8:26And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say; 8:27And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God. 8:28And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose. 8:29Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers: 8:30And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory. 8:31What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 8:32He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? 8:33Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil; 8:34Who will give a decision against us? It is Christ Jesus who not only was put to death, but came again from the dead, who is now at the right hand of God, taking our part. 8:35Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword? 8:36As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction. 8:37But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love. 8:38For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers, 8:39Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
9:1I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 9:2That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. 9:3For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh: 9:4Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God: 9:5Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. 9:6But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel: 9:7And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named. 9:8That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed. 9:9For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son. 9:10And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac-- 9:11Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is, 9:12It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger. 9:13Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate. 9:14What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said. 9:15For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity. 9:16So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God. 9:17For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth. 9:18So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard. 9:19But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose? 9:20But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so? 9:21Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? 9:22What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction: 9:23And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory, 9:24Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles? 9:25As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved. 9:26And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God. 9:27And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation: 9:28For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short. 9:29And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah. 9:30What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: 9:31But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it. 9:32Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way; 9:33As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
10:1Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation. 10:2For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge. 10:3Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God. 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith. 10:5For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it. 10:6But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:) 10:7Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:) 10:8But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers: 10:9Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation: 10:10For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation. 10:11Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed. 10:12And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name: 10:13Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation. 10:14But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher? 10:15And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things. 10:16But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word? 10:17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. 10:18But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 10:19But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry. 10:20And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me. 10:21But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.
11:1So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 11:2God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel, 11:3Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life. 11:4But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal. 11:5In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace. 11:6But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace. 11:7What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard. 11:8As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day. 11:9And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: 11:10Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times. 11:11So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy. 11:12Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full? 11:13But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position: 11:14If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me. 11:15For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead? 11:16And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile, 11:18Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported. 11:19You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in. 11:20Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear; 11:21For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you. 11:22See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were. 11:23And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again. 11:24For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs? 11:25For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in; 11:26And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob: 11:27And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins. 11:28As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers. 11:29Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed. 11:30For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away, 11:31So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy. 11:32For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all. 11:33O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out. 11:34Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes? 11:35Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? 11:36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.