Then out of the crowd they brought forward Alexander, the Jews pushing him on: and Alexander, waving his hand, would fain have addressed his apology to the people.

Put them in mind of these things, adjuring them before the Lord not to quarrel about words of no use, but tending to the perversion of the audience.

Alexander the brazier did me many ill offices: the Lord repay him according to his works:

I have

But if he disregard them, inform the church: and if he disregard the church, let him be to thee as a heathen, or a publican.

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

and holding ourselves ready to avenge every act of disobedience, when your obedience is fully proved.

For this cause, though absent, I have written these things, that when I am present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

Blaspheme

But the Jews seeing the multitude, were filled with envy, and opposed the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and reviling.

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, vainglorious, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon the horns ten diadems, and upon the heads a title of blasphemy.

General references

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

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