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But I don't hold my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all those that are sanctified.

And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his service.

And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they said to him, You see, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews of those that have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God even as you all are this day:

And he said, The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

And Paul, looking steadfastly on the Sanhedrin, said, Men, brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.

Then said Paul to him, God shall smite you, you whited wall: and do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?

But this I confess to you, that after the Way which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

In this I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men always.

And now I stand [here] to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers;

to which [promise] our twelve tribes, earnestly serving [God] night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those that are sanctified by faith in me.

but declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, to this day, I stand testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said should come;

And Paul [said], I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not you only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.

For there stood by me this night an angel of the God whose I am, whom I also serve,