# This message is reliable "This statement is true" # worthy of all acceptance "we should receive it without any doubt" or "deserves for us to accept it with full confidence" # sinners, of whom I am chief "sinners, of whom I am the chief sinner" or "sinners, of whom I am the worst." Paul is saying that he has sinned more than any other sinner, not that he has been the leader of a group of sinners.