We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

and when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch.

So Paul said, “Into what then were you baptized?” “Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.

that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

Now when they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.

“You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

After we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and sailing a straight course, we came to Cos, on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?