24 ^kBut I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

4 but just as we have been approved ^bby God to be ^centrusted with the gospel, so we speak, ^dnot to please man, but to please God who ^etests our hearts.

3 and ^hat the proper time ⁱmanifested in his word¹ through the preaching with which I have been ^jentrusted ^kby the command of God our Savior;