²⁸ This is my blood of the^[a] covenant,^(A) which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.^(B)

¹⁷ I will rescue you^(A) from your own people and from the Gentiles.^(B) I am sending you to them ¹⁸ to open their eyes^(C) and turn them from darkness to light,^(D) and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins^(E) and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’^(F)

¹⁹ “So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient^(G) to the vision from heaven.

¹⁸ You have been set free from sin^(A) and have become slaves to righteousness.^(B)

¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life^(C) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness^(D) leading to holiness. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin,^(E) you were free from the control of righteousness.^{(F) 21} What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^{(G) 22} But now that you have been set free from sin^(H) and have become slaves of God,^(I) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.^(J)

¹⁵ For this reason Christ is the mediator^(A) of a new covenant,^(B) that those who are called^(C) may receive the promised^(D) eternal inheritance^(E)—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.^(F)