⁹ During the night, the Lord told Paul in a vision [10:9–16; 16:9–10]: “Don’t be afraid. ·Continue talking to people [Speak out] and don’t be ·quiet [silent]. ¹⁰ [^LFor] I am with you, and no one will [^Llay a hand on you to] ·hurt [or do evil to] you because many of my people are in this city [Deut. 31:6; Josh. 1:5; Is. 41:10; 43:5; Jer. 1:7–9].” ¹¹ Paul stayed there [^Cin Corinth] for a year and a half, teaching God’s word to the people.