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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.