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

Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things [which pertain] to God.

"Therefore prepare yourself and arise, And speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, Lest I dismay you before them.

O LORD, You induced me, and I was persuaded; You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I am in derision daily; Everyone mocks me.

Then I said, "I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name." But [His word] was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding [it] back, And I could not.

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

Then the LORD took me as I followed the flock, And the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'

"For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."

So he, trembling and astonished, said, "Lord, what do You want 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 of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

'But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make 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 power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness 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 Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.

So I said: "Woe [is] me, for I am undone! Because 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, 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 have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it."