If he was put right with God by the things he did, he would have something to boast about---but not in God's sight.

In union with Christ Jesus, then, I can be proud of my service for God.

Get ready, Jeremiah; go and tell them everything I command you to say. Do not be afraid of them now, or I will make you even more afraid when you are with them.

LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived. You are stronger than I am, and you have overpowered me. Everyone makes fun of me; they laugh at me all day long.

But when I say, "I will forget the LORD and no longer speak in his name," then your message is like a fire burning deep within me. I try my best to hold it in, but can no longer keep it back.

When a lion roars, who can keep from being afraid? When the Sovereign LORD speaks, who can keep from proclaiming his message?

But the LORD took me from my work as a shepherd and ordered me to come and prophesy to his people Israel.

For we cannot stop speaking of what we ourselves have seen and heard."

"But get up and go into the city, where you will be told what you must do."

The Lord said to him, "Go, because I have chosen him to serve me, to make my name known to Gentiles and kings and to the people of Israel.

But get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant. You are to tell others what you have seen of me today and what I will show you in the future.

You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.'

First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.

For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant.

I said, "There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God."

And tell Archippus, "Be sure to finish the task you were given in the Lord's service."