For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Therefore I have reason to exult in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God.

You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I shame you before them.

O Jehovah, You have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I, and You have prevailed. I am in derision all the day; everyone mocks me.

Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak in His name any more. But His Word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding it in, and I could not.

A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

And Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.

For we are not able not to speak the things which we have seen and heard.

So he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what do You have in mind for me to do? Then the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel unto Me to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things in which I will appear to you.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

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

Then I said, Woe is me! for I am undone! for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah 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 have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.