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For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

Sha'ul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

For this cause therefore I asked you to see and to speak with me. For because of the hope of Yisra'el I am bound with this chain."

I am debtor both to Yevanim and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Messiah, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Yehudi first, and also for the Yevanit.

For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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

I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Ruach HaKodesh,

I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Yisra'elite, a descendant of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

For I speak to you who are Goyim. Since then as I am an apostle to Goyim, I glorify my ministry;

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

But now, I say, I am going to Yerushalayim, serving the holy ones.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.