Deliver those who are drawn away toward death; hold back those stumbling toward slaughter.
I broke the jaws of the wicked and plucked the victim from his teeth.
Rescue the poor and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
Afflicted and close to death since my youth, I suffer Your terrors; I am helpless.
But Paul shouted, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”
Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. But none of these things mattered to Gallio.
When much dissension arose, fearing that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, the commander ordered the soldiers to go down and take him from them by force and bring him into the barracks.