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 \v 24 Take these men and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, so that they may shave their heads. So everyone will know that the things they have been told about you are false. They will learn that you also follow the law.
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 \v 25 But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote and gave the instructions that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality."
-\v 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself with them, went into the temple, announcing the period of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
+\v 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself along with them. Then they went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering would be presented for each of them.
 
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-\v 27 When the seven days were almost finished, some Jews from Asia, seeing Paul in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and laid hands on him.
+\v 27 When the seven days were almost finished, some Jews from Asia, seeing Paul in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him.
 \v 28 They were shouting, "Israelite men, help us. This is the man who teaches all men everywhere things that are against the people, the law, and this place. Besides, he has also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place."
 \v 29 For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they thought that Paul had brought him into the temple.
 
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 \v 3 "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel. I was instructed according to the strict ways of the law of our fathers. I am zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
-\v 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding up and delivering them to prison, both men and women,
+\v 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding up and delivering to prison both men and women,
-\v 5 as the high priest and all the elders can bear witness. I received letters from them for the brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring them back in bonds to Jerusalem in order for them to be punished.
+\v 5 as the high priest and all the elders can testify. I received letters from them for the brothers in Damascus, and I went there to bring them back in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.
 
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 \v 6 It happened that when I was traveling and nearing Damascus, about noon suddenly a great light from heaven began to shine around me.
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 \v 15 Now, therefore, let the council tell the chief captain to bring him down to you, as if you would decide his case more precisely. As for us, we are ready to kill him before he comes here."
 
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 \v 16 But Paul's sister's son heard that they were lying in wait, so he went and entered the fortress and told Paul.
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 \v 17 Paul called one of the centurions and said, "Take this young man to the chief captain, for he has something to tell him."
 
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 \v 18 So the centurion took the young man and brought him to the chief captain and said, "Paul the prisoner called me to him, and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to say to you."
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 \v 19 The chief captain took him by the hand to a private place and asked him, "What is it that you have to tell me?"
 
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 \v 20 The young man said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring down Paul tomorrow to the council, as if they were going to ask more precisely about his case.
 \v 21 But do not give in to them, because there are more than forty men who are lying in wait for him. They have called a curse down on themselves, neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Even now they are ready, waiting for consent from you."
 
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 \v 22 So the chief captain let the young man go, after instructing him, "Tell no one that you have said these things to me."
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 \v 23 Then he called to him two of the centurions and said, "Get two hundred soldiers ready to go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen also, and two hundred spearmen. You will leave at the third hour of the night."
-\v 24 He also ordered them to provide animals which Paul could ride, and to take him safely to Felix the governor.
+\v 24 He also ordered them to provide animals which Paul could ride and to take him safely to Felix the governor.
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 \v 25 Then he wrote a letter like this:
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 \v 26 "Claudius Lysias to the most excellent Governor Felix, greetings.
-\v 27 This man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, when I came upon them with soldiers and rescued him, since I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
+\v 27 This man was arrested by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with soldiers and rescued him, since I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
 
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 \v 28 I wanted to know why they accused him, so I took him down to their council.
 \v 29 I learned that he was being accused about questions concerning their own law, but that there was no accusation against him that deserved death or imprisonment.
 \v 30 Then it was made known to me that there was a plot against the man, so I immediately sent him to you, and instructed his accusers also to bring their charges against him in your presence. Farewell."
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 \v 1 Now, Festus entered the province, and after three days, he went from Caesarea up to Jerusalem.
-\v 2 The chief priest and the prominent Jews brought accusations against Paul, and they urged him 
+\v 2 The chief priest and the prominent Jews brought accusations against Paul, and they urged him, 
-\v 3 and asked him for a favor that would put Paul in danger—that Festus might summon Paul to Jerusalem so that they could kill him along the way.
+\v 3 asking as a favor that that would be against Paul—namely, to have him transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way. 
 
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 \v 4 Festus answered that Paul was being held at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.
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 \v 1 So Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense.
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-\v 2 "I regard myself as happy, King Agrippa, to make my case before you today against all the accusations of the Jews;
+\v 2 "I regard myself as happy, King Agrippa, to make my case before you today against all the accusations of the Jews,
-\v 3 especially, because you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and questions. So I ask you to hear me patiently. 
+\v 3 especially because you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and questions. So I ask you to hear me patiently. 
 
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 \v 4 Truly, all the Jews know how I lived from my youth in my own nation and at Jerusalem.
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 \v 12 While I was doing this, I went to Damascus with authority and orders from the chief priests;
-\v 13 and on the way there, at midday, King, I saw a light from heaven that was brighter than the sun and it shone around both me and the men who were traveling with me.
+\v 13 and on the way there, at midday, King, I saw a light from heaven that was brighter than the sun, and it shone around both me and the men who were traveling with me.
 \v 14 When we all fell to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me that said in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick a goad.'
 
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 \v 1 When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they put Paul and some other prisoners under the charge of a centurion named Julius of the Imperial Regiment.
-\v 2 We boarded a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail along the coast of Asia. So we went to sea. Aristarchus from Thessalonica in Macedonia went with us.
+\v 2 We boarded a ship from Adramyttium which was about to sail along the coast of Asia. So we went to sea. Aristarchus from Thessalonica in Macedonia went with us.
 
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 \v 3 The next day we landed at the city of Sidon, where Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive their care.
 \v 4 From there we went to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, close to the island, because the winds were against us. 
 \v 5 When we had sailed across the sea past Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra, a city of Lycia.
-\v 6 There, the centurion found a ship from Alexandria that was going to sail to Italy. He put us in it.
+\v 6 There, the centurion found a ship from Alexandria that was going to sail to Italy. He put us on it.
 
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-\v 7 When we had sailed slowly for many days and had finally arrived with difficulty near Cnidus, the wind no longer allowed us to go that way, so we sailed along the sheltered side of Crete, opposite Salmone.
+\v 7 When we had sailed slowly for many days and had finally arrived with difficulty near Cnidus, and the wind no longer allowed us to go that way, so we sailed along the sheltered side of Crete opposite Salmone.
 \v 8 We sailed along the coast with difficulty, until we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, which is near the city of Lasea.
 
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 \v 11 But the centurion paid more attention to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things that were spoken by Paul.
 
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-\v 12 Because the harbor was not easy to spend the winter in, most of the sailors advised to sail from there, if by any means we could reach the city of Phoenix, to spend the winter there. Phoenix is a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.
+\v 12 Because the harbor was not easy to spend the winter in, most of the sailors advised to sail from there, and if by any means we could reach the city of Phoenix, to spend the winter there. Phoenix is a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.
-\v 13 When the south wind began to blow gently, the sailors thought that they had what they needed. So they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore.
+\v 13 When a south wind began to blow gently, the sailors thought that they had what they needed. So they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore.
 
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 \v 14 But after a short time a wind of hurricane force, called the northeaster, began to beat down from the island.
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 \v 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let it drift away.
 
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-\v 33 When daylight was coming on, Paul urged them all to take some food. He said, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and do not eat; you have eaten nothing.
+\v 33 When daylight was coming on, Paul urged them all to take some food. He said, "This day is the fourteenth day that you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you have not eaten anything. 
 \v 34 So I urge you to share some food, for this is necessary for you to survive. For not one of you will lose a single hair from his head."
 \v 35 When he had said this, he took bread and he thanked God in the sight of everyone. Then he broke the bread and began to eat.
 
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 \v 39 When it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a beach, and they discussed whether they could drive the ship onto it.
 \v 40 So they cut loose the anchors and left them in the sea. At the same time they loosed the ropes of the rudders and raised the foresail to the wind; and so they headed to the beach.
-\v 41 But they came to a place where two currents met, and the ship ran into the ground. The bow of the ship stuck there and remained unmovable, but the stern began to break up because of the waves' violence.
+\v 41 But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow was stuck there and remained unmovable, and the stern was broken up by the force of the waves.
 
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 \v 42 The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them could swim away and escape.
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 \v 1 When we were brought safely through, we learned that the island was called Malta.
-\v 2 The native people offered to us not just ordinary kindness, but they lit a fire and welcomed us all, because of the constant rain and cold.
+\v 2 The native people offered to us not just ordinary kindness, but they lit a fire and welcomed us all because of the constant rain and cold.
 
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-\v 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and placed them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened onto his hand.
+\v 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and placed them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened onto his hand.
 \v 4 When the native people saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "This man certainly is a murderer who escaped from the sea, Justice does not permit him to live."
 
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 \v 4 Therefore, my brothers, you were also made dead to the law through the body of Christ. This is so that you could be joined to another, that is, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might produce fruit for God.
-\v 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
+\v 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our parts of our body to bear fruit for death.
 
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 \v 6 But now we have been released from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. This is so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
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 \v 19 For the good that I want I do not do, but the evil that I do not want, that I do.
 \v 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, then it is no longer I who am acting, but rather sin that lives in me.
-\v 21 I find, then, the principle in me that I want to do what is good, but that evil is actually present in me.
+\v 21 I find, then, the law in me that I want to do what is good, but that evil is actually present in me.
 
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 \v 22 For I rejoice in the law of God with the inner man.
-\v 23 But I see a different principle in my body parts. It fights against that new principle in my mind. It takes me captive by the principle of sin that is in my body parts.
+\v 23 But I see a different law in the parts of my body. It fights against that new law in my mind. It takes me captive by the law of sin that is in the parts of my body.
 
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 \v 24 I am a miserable man! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
-\v 25 But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind. However, with the flesh I serve the principle of sin.
+\v 25 But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind. However, with the flesh I serve the law of sin.
 
 
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 \v 3 For I say, because of the grace that was given to me, that everyone who is among you should not think more highly of themselves than they ought to think. Instead, they should think in a wise way, just as God has given out to each one a certain amount of faith.
 
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-\v 4 For we have many members in one body, but not all the members have the same function.
+\v 4 For we have many parts in one body, but not all the parts have the same function.
-\v 5 In the same way, we who are many are one body in Christ, and are individually members of each other.
+\v 5 In the same way, we who are many are one body in Christ, and are individually parts of each other.
 
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 \v 6 We have different gifts according to the grace that was given to us. If one's gift is prophecy, let it be done according to the proportion of his faith.