After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

He replied, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

Then when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship’s boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow,

And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

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.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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.

When you gather together in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of our Lord Jesus,