¹⁶ At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

⁶⁰ He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

¹⁵ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

¹⁰ for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

¹⁵ This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

¹⁷ but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.

⁷ It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.

¹¹ For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

³ My defense to those who examine me is this.

¹⁶ To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

¹ "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."

³² Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

⁵⁰ They all left him, and fled.

¹¹ Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

¹² I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

¹³ For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.