The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

But if you want anything in addition, it will have to be settled in a legal assembly.

(Now there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.)

“While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

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?”

(We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

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

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!