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And God wrought very great miracles by the hand of Paul:

And thus with great power was the faith of God strengthened and increased.

And at that time there was great commotion respecting the way of God.

laboring for God, in great humility, and with tears, amid the trials which beset me from the plottings of Jews:

while I testified to Jews and to Gentiles, as to repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Messiah.

But my life is accounted by me as nothing, so that I may but finish my course, and the ministration which I have received from our Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

And now, I know that ye will see my face no more, all of you among whom I have travelled and preached the kingdom of God.

For I have not shunned to acquaint you with all the will of God.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit hath established you bishops; ‡3 that ye feed the church of God, which he hath acquired by his blood.

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 an inheritance among all the saints.

And we gave them salutation: and Paul narrated to them, with particularity what God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

And when they heard [fn] they glorified God. And they said to him: Our brother, Thou seest how many myriads there are in Judaea who have believed: and these are all zealous for the law.

I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers; and I was zealous for God, as ye also all are.

And he said to me: The God of our fathers hath ordained thee to know his will, and to behold the Just One, and to hear the voice of his mouth.

And when Paul had looked on the assembly of them, he said: Men, my brethren; I have lived in all good conscience before God up to this day.

And Paul said to him: God is here-after to smite thee, [fn] Whited Wall ! For, sittest thou judging me agreeably to law, while thou transgressest the law, and commandest to smite me?

And those standing by, said to him: Dost thou reproach the priest of God !

But this indeed I acknowledge, that in that same doctrine of which they speak, I do serve the God of my fathers, believing all the things written in the law and in the prophets.

And I have a hope in God, which they also themselves expect, that there is to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the wicked.

And for this reason, I also labor to have always a pure conscience before God, and before men.