Study Desk

We made slow headway for many days and had difficulty arriving off Cnidus. When the wind did not allow us to hold our course, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.

So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me.

Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.

Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. "For the last fourteen days," he said, "you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven't eaten anything.

Cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.

When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live."

There was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us to his home and showed us generous hospitality for three days.

For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain."

But we want to hear what your views are, for we know that people everywhere are talking against this sect."

For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God—

Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name's sake.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.

in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God's will the way may be opened for me to come to you.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.