Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear.

From there we cast off and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.