to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before
that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoic
to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.
I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedie
I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the a
But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from
For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself in
So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Ch
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are no
I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all w
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless a
And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone whil
Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more im
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifi
Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and beli
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acce
And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, through the will of
As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposit
For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each hi
It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by t
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He ha
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work
On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to