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I saw Jesus, and He said to me, "`Make haste and leave Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'

Noticing, however, that the Sanhedrin consisted partly of Sadducees and partly of Pharisees, he called out loudly among them, "Brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. It is because of my hope of a resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial."

So he took him and brought him to the Tribune, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, called me to him and begged me to bring this youth to you, because he has something to say to you."

And now I stand here impeached because of my hope in the fulfilment of the promise made by God to our forefathers--

Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us;

The strange-speaking natives showed us remarkable kindness, for they lighted a fire and made us all welcome because of the pelting rain and the cold.

They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.

because what may be known about Him is plain to their inmost consciousness; for He Himself has made it plain to them.

a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.

The privilege is great from every point of view. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God's truth.

He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness-- because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the sins previously committed--

who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.

and that this hope never disappoints, because God's love for us floods our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;

Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.