And they brought Alexander forward out of the multitude, the Jews urging him on. And Alexander beckoning with the hand, would have made a defence to the people.

These things remind them of, charging them before the Lord not to contend about words, which is profitable for nothing, and tends to the subversion of the hearers.

Alexander the brazier did me many ill turns: the Lord will reward him according to his deeds.

I have

And if he disregard them, tell it to the church: but if he disregard the church too, let him be unto thee as an heathen and a publican.

when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,

And being prepared to avenge all disobedience, since your obedience is fulfilled.

Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

Blaspheme

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, opposing and reviling him.

for men will be selfish, covetous, arrogant, proud, blasphemers, undutiful to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, which had seven heads and ten horns; and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the names of blasphemy.

General references

and whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; but whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

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