To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations.

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for many times he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my perplexity:

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

In my first defence none was present with me, but all forsook me; (may it not be reckoned to them.)

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.