But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear {you} in pieces, and {there be} none to deliver.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending {it} in pieces, while {there is} none to deliver. {none...: Heb. not a deliverer}

And when they heard {these sayings}, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great {is} Diana of the Ephesians.

This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.

And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.

And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.

And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of {them} all the Lord delivered me.

Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

Delivering thee from the people, and {from} the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from {their} purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast {themselves} first {into the sea}, and get to land:

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; {in tumults: or, in tossings to and fro}

{In} journeyings often, {in} perils of waters, {in} perils of robbers, {in} perils by {mine own} countrymen, {in} perils by the heathen, {in} perils in the city, {in} perils in the wilderness, {in} perils in the sea, {in} perils among false brethren;

If thou forbear to deliver {them that are} drawn unto death, and {those that are} ready to be slain;