And they brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made a defense unto the people.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord will render to him according to his works:

I have

And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

Blaspheme

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

General references

whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever'sins ye retain, they are retained.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.