I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness In the great assembly; Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O LORD, You Yourself know.

I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth From the great assembly.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness [And] Your salvation all the day, For I do not know [their] limits.

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law."

" For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed.

[He is] near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who [is] My adversary? Let him come near Me.

And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

and most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,

"Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

His parents said these [things] because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed [that] He [was] Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, "What shall we do? For this Man works many signs.

And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

Now this he did not say on his own [authority;] but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.

Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [Him,] lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.