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Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews.

And I said: Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord answered: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

And Paul said: I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I speak words of truth and soberness.

For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with confidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner.

And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

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

For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

To the Greeks and to the barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise, I am a debtor.

So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the Greek.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.

For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life.

For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,

I know, and am confident in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

And I myself also, my brethren, am assured of you that you also are full of love, replenished with all knowledge, so that you are able to admonish one another.