You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

(For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul held out his hand and began his defense:

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

Agrippa said to Paul, “In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”

When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.