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Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

Therefore, having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”

Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out in a loud voice,

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’

Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’

Judas consented, and began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus to them in the absence of a crowd.

Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him.

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple officers, and elders who had come for Him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against an outlaw?

About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with Him, for he too is a Galilean.”

(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)

Above Him was posted an inscription: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.

I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”

So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

…an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, a man of intelligence, summoned Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.

And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us, and they took us to stay at the home of Mnason the Cypriot, an early disciple.

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”

At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

…to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.

…to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

…an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

…to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?

Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,

What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church.