When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “you will hear him.”

The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed –

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

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

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles –

that by revelation the divine secret was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak.

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,