And now go, and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say.

And the Lord was greatly angered against Moses, and said, Lo! Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he will surely speak to you. And behold, he will come forth to meet you, and beholding you, he will rejoice within himself.

And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all [the words] that I shall command you, you shall speak.

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

Rise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to you of.

Now as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them."

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth from the womb, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the gospel of God

Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and the other for dishonor?

and so that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

to reveal His Son in me, so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,

to which I was appointed a herald and apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

No one serving as a soldier entangles [himself] in the affairs of [civilian] life, in order that he may please the [one] having enlisted him.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the [latter], he will be a vessel for honor, having been consecrated and useful to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, and elect, and faithful."

And having greeted them, he reported one by one those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

"Then He said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

"Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name,

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.

So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.

For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God,

Therefore I have something to boast of in Christ Jesus in the things pertaining to God.

in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

but as it is written: "To whom He was not announced, they shall see; and those who have not heard shall understand."

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

but on the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted [with] the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter [with the gospel] for the circumcised,

(for He who worked with Peter in [the] apostleship to the circumcised, worked also with me in [that for] the Gentiles),

of which I became a minister according to the free gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the working of His power.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

for which I also labor, striving according to His working which is working in me with power.

for which I was appointed a herald and apostle--I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

Then Agrippa said to Festus, "I also was wishing to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."

And Festus said: "King Agrippa and all the men who are with us, observe this man about whom the people of the Jews petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying against [him] that it is not fitting [for] him to live any longer.

About whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you King Agrippa, in order that when this hearing is finished I may have something to write.

then Agrippa said to Paul, "It is permitted for you to speak for yourself." So Paul, having extended his hand, spoke in his own defense:

especially since you are well versed both in all the customs and questions in relation to the Jews; therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

since they have known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

[a promise] to which our twelve tribes, as they earnestly serve God night and day, hope to attain. Concerning which hope I am accused by [the] Jews, King Agrippa.

Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;

And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even as far as to foreign cities.

saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; for it is necessary for you to stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those sailing with you.'

And you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the nations.

At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled, and all the Gentiles might hear, and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

And it came to pass after three days that Paul called together those who were prominent among the Jews; and when they had come together, he said to them: "Men, brothers, though I have done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans,

But when the Jews spoke in opposition, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything of which to accuse my nation.

Then they said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who arrived report or speak anything evil about you.

And having appointed for him a day, many came to him at his house, to whom he was explaining and solemnly testifying to the kingdom of God, and persuading them of the things concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning till evening.

And being in disagreement with one another, they went away after Paul had said one word: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

For the hearts of this people has become dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and they should hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart and turn back, so that I should heal them."'

And when he had said these things, the Jews went away, having a great dispute among themselves.

preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.