He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.

On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person’s praise is not from people but from God.

And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)

So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?