So I made up my own mind not to pay you another painful visit.

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.