But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: for the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
To which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God day and night, hope to attain. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
And because the harbor was not convenient to winter in, the greater part advised to depart from there also, if by any means they might reach Phoenix, and there winter; which is a harbor of Crete, and lies toward the southwest and northwest.
But I fear that by some means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds will be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor was in vain.
Let no one deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, unless there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but to all those also who love his appearing.