Bible Verses About Select Readings

delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

because of these things the Jews--having caught me in the temple--were endeavouring to kill me .

`Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;

thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'

And Agrippa said unto Paul, `In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'

and Paul said, `I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am--except these bonds.'

And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,

and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying--`This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'

and Agrippa said to Festus, `This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;