¹¹ And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, ^(A)do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say ^(B)whatever is given you in that hour, ^(C)for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. ^12 (D)And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. ^13 (E)And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. ^(F)But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

¹² But before all this ^(A)they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to ^(B)the synagogues and ^(C)prisons, and you ^(D)will be brought before ^(E)kings and ^(F)governors for my name's sake. ^13 (G)This will be your opportunity to bear witness. ¹⁴ Settle it therefore in your minds ^(H)not to meditate beforehand how to answer, ¹⁵ for ^(I)I will give you a mouth and ^(J)wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or ^(K)contradict. ¹⁶ You will be delivered up ^(L)even by parents and brothers^[a] and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. ^17 (M)You will be hated by all for my name's sake. ¹⁸ But ^(N)not a hair of your head will perish. ¹⁹ By your ^(O)endurance you will gain your lives.

¹⁶ At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. ^(A)May it not be charged against them!

¹⁷ But ^(A)the Lord stood by me and ^(B)strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and ^(C)all the Gentiles might hear it. So ^(D)I was rescued ^(E)from the lion's mouth.