For if Abraham was justified by works, he has [grounds for] boasting, but not before God.

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

Gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all [the words] that I shall command you. Be not afraid of their face, neither be alarmed before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

You have deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived. You have been strong, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing stock, I am continually mocked every day.

Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no longer speak in His name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear [up].

A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? The Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?

And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to My people Israel.

For we can do none other but to speak the things which we saw and heard.

"But stand up and enter into the city, and it will be spoken to you what you must do."

But the Lord said to him, "Go [your way], for he is a chosen vessel to Me to bear My name before Gentiles and kings, and the sons of Israel.

But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both [of the things] which you have seen, and [of the things] which I will yet reveal to you,

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

but to those first in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, proclaiming that they must repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

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

And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

And say to Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."