Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: be not dismayed at their faces, so that I do not confound you before them.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not restrain myself.
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.
If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we have not used this authority; but suffer all things, so that we do not hinder the gospel of Christ.