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So do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of them—who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him—are lying in wait for him and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you."

So the commander let the young man go, instructing him, "Tell no one that you have notified me of these things."

So the soldiers, according to their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought before me.

So, on the next day when Agrippa came together with Bernice amid great pomp, and entered the hall accompanied by the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the order of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

"So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

"So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

"While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.'

"So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.

For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be strengthened;

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

So if the uncircumcised man observes the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are in the Law, so that every mouth may be shut and all the world may become accountable to God;