History & Narratives Verses
The great stories of the Bible — patriarchs, kings, battles, miracles, and God's faithfulness through history.
At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, {and there} to winter; {which is} an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed {themselves} unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. {taken...: or, cut the anchors, they left them in the sea}
And the rest, some on boards, and some on {broken pieces} of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men {and} brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither {is that} circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
But he {is} a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision {is that} of the heart, in the spirit, {and} not in the letter; whose praise {is} not of men, but of God.