reported, "We found the prison safely locked and the keepers on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one on the inside."

Therefore, brothers, choose from among you seven men with good reputations [men of godly character and moral integrity], full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task.

Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.

"And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

But even the sacrifice of my life I count as nothing, if only I may perfect my earthly course, and be faithful to the duty which the Lord Jesus has entrusted to me of proclaiming, as of supreme importance, the Good News of God's grace.

What is your duty, then? They will certainly hear that you have come.

Paul fixed his eyes upon the council and said, "Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty to God up to this very day."

I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.