All persecution suffer to gain a martyr’s crown.
My life I will not grudge to lose for Jesus’ sake.
His faith I hold from point to point without mistake.
I dread his doctrine’s fall to uninstructed guides.
The truth from their bad teaching still to ruin glides.
Thanks be to God, to Jesus thanks, who me have made
A teacher perfect of the faith so free from shade.35
The Jew and Judaism I have forsworn in sooth;
About my loins the sacred cord[83] I wear; ’tis truth.
This age the age of Jesus is; O men, give ear!