(for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),
Parallel translations
- WEB (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
- KJV (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
- BSB For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
- NASB (for He who was at work for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised was at work for me also to the Gentiles),
- NLT For the same God who worked through Peter as the apostle to the Jews also worked through me as the apostle to the Gentiles.
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The same God who empowered Peter's apostleship to the Jews also empowered Paul's to the Gentiles. Both ministries had one divine source.
Overview
Paul attributes both his and Peter's apostolic work to God's effective calling. This shared divine commission places his Gentile mission on equal footing with Peter's. The unity of source confirms that the gospel of grace was God's design for all peoples.
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- Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
- Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
- Acts 21:19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
- Acts 2:14–41But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
- Acts 15:12All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
- Acts 19:11–12God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
- Acts 8:17Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- Acts 5:12–16By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
- Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
- Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
- 1 Cor 9:2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
- Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
- Acts 14:3–11Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
- Acts 13:2–11As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
- Acts 3:12–26When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
- 2 Cor 11:4–5For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
- Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
- Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
- 1 Cor 1:5–7that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
- Gal 3:5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Acts 19:26You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.
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