Bible Verses About Select Readings

neither by the hands of men is He served--needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, --though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator--Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor the things against Paul;

and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him , saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,

always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;

and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;

for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world--a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes--

who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,

and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,

having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'

and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.

And Paul answered--the governor having beckoned to him to speak--`Knowing that for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,