⁴ He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.^(A)

⁵ When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message^[a] and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.^{(B) 6} But when they resisted and blasphemed,^(C) he shook his robe^[b](D) and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!^(E) I am innocent.^[c] From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”^{(F) 7} So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. ⁸ Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household.^(G) Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

⁹ Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. ¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”^{(H) 11} And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹⁵ For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can’t have many fathers. For I became your father^(A) in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Paul’s Example as an Apostle

9 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

Resurrection Essential to the Gospel

15 Now brothers, I want to clarify^[a] for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand^(A) on it.