Acts 26:16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ ·Stand up [^LGet up and stand on your feet]! This is why I have come [appeared] to you today: I have ·chosen [appointed] you to be my servant and my witness—you will tell people the things that you have seen and the things that I will show you. ¹⁷ I will ·keep you safe [rescue you] from your own people and also from the ·Gentiles [nations]. I am sending you to them ¹⁸ to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to the light, away from the ·power [or authority] of Satan and to God. ·Then [or …so that] their sins can be forgiven, and they can have a place with those people who have been ·made holy [sanctified] by ·believing [faith] in me.’