¹⁶ If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel!

²⁰ for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”^(A)

¹⁷ And say to Archippus, “See that you complete the task that you have received in the Lord.”^(A)

¹⁴ I am obligated both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish,

⁶ But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”

¹⁷ In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to boast of my work for God.

¹⁶ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me^[a] and to those in which I will appear to you.^{(A) 17} I will rescue you from your people and from the gentiles—to whom I am sending you^{(B) 18} to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’^(C)

Paul Tells of His Preaching

¹⁹ “After that, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision ²⁰ but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout the countryside of Judea, and also to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds consistent with repentance.^(D)

⁶² And Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;^(A)

⁵ And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”^(A)