For he was numbered among us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:
Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:
but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;