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“My lords, what must I do to be saved?” 31And they said, “Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your house shall be saved.”
11And God, through Paul’s hands, performed extraordinary deeds of power, 12so that kerchiefs and aprons were even brought away from contact with his skin and placed upon the ill and they were ridded of their diseases, and the spirits, the wicked ones, departed from them.
24For a certain silversmith by the name of Demetrius, who fashioned silver shrines to Artemis, provided no little trade for artisans—25whom he convened, along with workers in related trades, and said, “Men, you are aware that our earnings come from this trade, 26and you see and hear how this fellow Paul, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of Asia, has persuaded and perverted a considerable throng, saying that they whom hands bring into being are not gods. 27Now, the danger is not only that our business might come into disrepute, but that the Temple of the great goddess Artemisal might
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8Now there were a considerable number of lamps in the upper room where we were assembled. 9And a certain young man by the name of Eutychus, sitting on the window ledge and being carried down into deep sleep as Paul’s disquisition went on and on, was upended in his sleep and fell from the third floor, and was lifted up a corpse.
28Watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Spirit, the Holy One, has set you as supervisors, to shepherd God’s assembly, which he purchased by his own blood.
9And when considerable time had passed, and the voyage was now perilous because the fast had gone by as well, Paul offered a warning, 10saying to them, “Men, I see that the voyage will soon be accompanied by violence and great loss, not only for the cargo and ship, but for our souls.”
21And then, when they had abstained from food for a long while, Paul stood up among them and said, “O men, you should have heeded me and not sailed from Crete, and not come to this disaster and deprivation. 22And now I exhort you to be in good spirits: for the ship will be lost, but not one soul.
“We have not received letters concerning you from Judaea, nor has any of the brothers come to report or speak anything wicked regarding you. 22And we consider it worth hearing from you what you think; for what is known to us regarding this sect is that it is denounced everywhere.”
14Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to sages and to fools, I am a debtor; 15so, as far as is possible for me, I am eager to proclaim the good tidings to you who are in Rome too.
3And do you, O man—you who judge those doing such things while also doing them—reckon that you will escape God’s judgment? 4Or do you disdain the abundance of his kindness and forbearance and magnanimity, ignorant that God’s kindness leads you to the heart’s transformation?
11For with God there is no respecting of persons. 12For as many as have sinned without the Law will perish without the Law; and as many as have sinned within the Law will be judged by the Law; 13for those who hear the Law are not upright before God; rather doers of the Law will be proved upright.
21Do you who teach another not therefore teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? 22You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abominate idols, do you rob temples? 23Do you who boast in the Law dishonor God by transgressing the Law?
5And if our injustice serves to exhibit God’s justice, what shall we say? That the God who enforces this indignation is unjust? (I speak in human terms.) 6Let it not be so! Else how will God judge the cosmos? 7Yet, if through my falsehood God’s truth overflowed to his glory, why am I still also judged as a sinner? 8And why not (as we are slandered, and as some claim we say): “Let us do evil things that good things may come?”—on them the verdict is just
23for all have sinned and lack God’s magnificence, 24being vindicated as a gift by his grace, because of the manumission fee paid in the Anointed One, Jesus:h 25whom God proffered on account of faithfulness as a conciliation,i in his blood, as a demonstration of his justice through the dismissal of past sins 26in God’s clemency—for the demonstration of his justice in the present season—that he might himself be just and that the one vindicated might be so from Jesus’s faithfulness.
12Therefore, just as sin entered into the cosmos through one man, and death through sin, so also death pervaded all humanity, whereupon all sinned;
14Yet death reigned from Adam till Moses, even over those who did not commit sin similar to the transgression of Adam, who is a figural type of the one about to come.
19for, just as by the heedlessness of the one man the many were rendered sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be rendered upright.s
that our old man was co-crucified, in order that the body of sin might be destroyed so that we should be enslaved to sin no longer; 7for the one who has died is absolved from sin. 8And, if we died with the Anointed, we have faith that we shall live together with him;
2For the law of the spirit of life in the Anointed One Jesus freed youw from the law of sin and death. 3For the thing that is impossible for the Law, in which it was weak on account of the flesh—God, having sent his own Son in a semblance of the flesh of sin, also (as regards sin) condemned the sin that is in the flesh, 4in order that the Law’s just ordinance might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to flesh but according to spirit.
30What then shall we say? That gentiles, not chasing after righteousness, seized hold of righteousness—albeit a righteousness coming from faithfulness—31while Israel, chasing after a Law of righteousness, failed to catch up to the Law? 32Why? Because not out of faithfulness, but rather out of observances, they stumbled over the “stone of stumbling,” 33just as has been written, “See: I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock for faltering, and whoever has faith on him will not be put to shame.”
13For “Everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 14How may they invoke one in whom they did not have faith? And how may they have faith in one of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear apart from someone proclaiming? 15And how may they proclaim unless they were sent forth? Just as has been written: “How lovely the feet of those [announcing glad tidings of peace and] proclaiming glad tidings of good things.”
22See, then, God’s kindness and severity: severity upon those who have fallen, but God’s kindness upon you if you abide in that kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off. 23And they too, if they do not persist in faithlessness, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again.
5So, to become subordinate is a necessity, not only on account of outrage, but on account of conscience as well. 6So, then, pay taxes also: for they who attend constantly to this very matter are God’s ministers. 7Render to everyone the things owed: to whom tax, tax; to whom dues, dues; to whom reverence, reverence; to whom honor, honor. 8Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for whoever loves the other fulfills the Law.
2One man believes in eating all things, while one who is weak eats vegetables. 3Let not the one who eats hold the one who does not eat in disdain, and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who does eat, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge another’s domestic? He stands or falls by his own lord; and he shall stand because that lord is able to make him stand. 5One man esteems one day above another day, but another esteems every day; let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6Whoever is mindful of the day minds it for the Lord’s sake; [and whoever is not mindful of the day
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14I know and have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is profane in itself except to the one who reckons something to be profane—it is profane for him.
1Now we who are able ought to give support to the infirmities of those who are incapable, and not please ourselves.
23but now, having nowhere left in these regions, and for several years having had a longing to visit you, 24[I shall come to you] whenever I journey to Spain; for I hope to look upon you as I pass through, and there to be sent onward by you, if I might be replenished by you first.
1Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is [also] a ministerao of the assembly in Cenchrae, 2so that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the holy ones, and may assist her regarding whatever thing she may need from you; for she has been a protectressap of many, myself included.
7Greet my kinsfolk and fellow prisoners Andronicus and Junia,as who are especially notable among the apostles, and who were in the Anointed before I was.
16Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the assemblies of the Anointed greet you.
I, Tertius, who am writing out this letter in the Lord, greet you.)
12Now I say this: that each of you says either “I am of Paul” or “I am of Apollos” or “I am of Cephas” or “I am of the Anointed.”
11For who knows the things of men except the man’s spirit, which is within him? So also no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God.
18Let no one deceive himself: if anyone among you thinks to be a wise man in this age, let him become foolish in order to become wise. 19For the wisdom of this cosmos is folly before God. For it has been written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
Every sort of sin is external to the body; but the one who whores sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you were bought at a price, so glorify God in your body [and in your spirit, which are God’s].
29But I say this, brothers: the time has been made short; so that, henceforth, even those who have wives might be like those having none,
20And to the Judaeans I became as a Judaean, that I might gain Judaeans; to those subject to the Law, as one subject to the Law—while not being subject to the Law—that I might gain those subject to the Law; 21to those without the Law, as one without the Law—though being not without God’s law, but rather subject to the law of the Anointed—that I might gain those without the Law; 22to the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I became all things to all persons, that in every case I might save some of them. 23But I do everything for the sake of the good tidings, that I might become a
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16The cup of blessing that we bless—is it not communion with the blood of the Anointed? The loaf of bread that we break—is it not communion with the body of the Anointed? 17Because of one loaf, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
18I thank God, I speak in tongues more than all of you; 19yet in assembly I elect to speak five words with the mind, in order that I may give instruction to others, rather than tens of thousands of words in a tongue.
Whenever you convene, each has a psalm, each has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation; let all things be for edification.
39Therefore, my brothers, be zealous to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues; 40but let all things be done becomingly and in orderly fashion.
51Look, I tell you a mystery: not all of us shall fall asleep, but all of us shall be changed, 52in an instant, in a glance of an eye, at the final trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53For this perishable thing must clothe itself in imperishability, and this mortal thing must clothe itself in immortality.
13Because relief for others is not intended to be distress for you, but follows from equality: 14at the present juncture, your abundance is for their lack, so that their abundance may be for your lack, in order that there might be equality, 15as has been written, “Whosoever [gathered] much had nothing in excess, and whosoever [gathered] little had no shortage.”
21for we pay attention to the things that are seemly not only in the Lord’s eyes, but also in the eyes of human beings.
did not immediately take counsel with flesh and blood, 17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who had been apostles before I had, but instead departed into Arabia, then returned to Damascus. 18Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephasa and remained with him for fifteen days; 19but I saw no other of the apostles except James, the Lord’s brother.
I have been entrusted with the good tidings for those of the foreskin, just as has Peter for those of the circumcision—
recognizing the grace given to me, James and Cephas and John—who appeared to be the pillars—gave their hands in fellowship to me and to bar-Nabas, that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcision, 10if only we should remember the poor—the very thing, indeed, that I was eager to do.
11But when Cephas [Peter] came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he was being contemptible. 12For he ate with the gentiles before certain men came along with James; when they had come, however, he withdrew and separated himself, in fear of those from the circumcision; 13and the rest of the Judaeans [also] joined him in his theatrical charlatanry, so that even bar-Nabas was carried away by their dissimulation.
I said to Cephas [Peter] in front of everyone, “If you who are a Judaean live as a gentile and not as a Judaean, how is it you require the gentiles to become Judaean?”
19Why, then, the Law? Ordained by angels in an intermediary’s hand, it was given as a supplement, on account of transgressions, till such time as the seed to whom it was promised should come.
