Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

The police officers reported these words to the magistrates. They were frightened when they heard Paul and Silas were Roman citizens

Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

“Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”

Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”