Then Abishai said to David, God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him with the spear, into the earth one time; and I will not strike him again.

And David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and be guiltless?

I broke the fangs of the perverse, and flung out the prey from his teeth.

Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When you see the naked to cover him; and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

And likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed.

And he released to them the one they requested, who for rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. But Gallio took no notice of these things.

Now as they were seeking to kill him, news came to the commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And when they saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

And when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

And he summoned two centurions, saying, Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night;

And he wrote a letter in the following manner:

This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them. Coming with the troops I rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

I found out that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but had nothing charged against him deserving of death or bonds.

Then the soldiers, as they were commanded, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

When they came to Caesarea and had delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

he said, I will fully hear you when your accusers also have come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

By this we know the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?