After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.

and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

Or these men here should tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the council,

So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

But the centurion was more convinced by the captain and the ship’s owner than by what Paul said.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?