11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
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After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. …
But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Many are the troubles of the righteous, but some way or other the Lord delivereth them out of them all . Paul owned he had experienced the truth of this in the persecutions he had undergone among the Gentiles (see 2 Tim. 3:11): Out of them all the Lord delivered me . And now he finds that he who has delivered does and will deliver. He that delivered him in the foregoing chapter from the tumult of…
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