So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul held out his hand and began his defense:

As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed loudly, “You have lost your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

When it was decided we would sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.

We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

We sailed slowly for many days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Because the wind prevented us from going any farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.

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 the rest were to follow, some on planks and some on pieces of the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to land.

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

Now in the region around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably as guests for three days.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it.”

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

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?

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.