Now I appeal to God as my witness, ¹  that to spare ²  you I did not come again to Corinth. ³ 

If then I am in the wrong ¹  and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, ²  but if not one of their charges against me is true, ³  no one can hand me over to them. ⁴  I appeal to Caesar!” ⁵