Acts 25:12

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

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

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.

But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

So as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.