Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”

for a crowd of people followed them, screaming, “Away with him!”

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

While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

The next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks.

Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.

So all of them were encouraged and took food themselves.

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

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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?

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

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

The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”