²¹ Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

¹² When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

¹³ There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

¹⁴ They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

² You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

²³ When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

⁵ When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

⁶ they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

³ asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

²⁶ I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

³² In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

³³ Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.