Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.