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And the night following, the Lord standing by him, said, Be of good courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must testify at Rome also.

So he took and led him to the tribune, and said, Paul the prisoner, calling me to him, desired me, to bring this young man to thee, who hath something to tell thee.

So the tribune dismissed the young man, having charged him, Tell no man, that thou hast discovered these things to me.

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

that after the way, which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Which having taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they struck sail, and so were driven.

But after long abstinence, Paul standing in the midst of them, said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, and so have avoided this injury and loss.

And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship; and so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to land.

Where finding brethren, we were intreated to tarry with them seven days, and so we went toward Rome.

For those things of him which are invisible, both his eternal power and Godhead, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things which are made, so that they are without excuse:

So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:

Who against hope believed in hope, that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

And not only so, but we also glory in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, even so death passed upon all men, in that all had sinned.

Yet not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if by the offence of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, that of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

And not as the loss by one that sinned, so is the gift; for the sentence was by one offence to condemnation; but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

As therefore by one offence the sentence of death came upon all men to condemnation, so also by one righteousness the free gift came upon all men to justification of life.

For as by the disobedience of one man, many were constituted sinners, so by the obedience of one, many shall be constituted righteous.

That as sin had reigned through death, so grace also might reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.