For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
Parallel translations
- KJV For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
- BSB I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
- NKJV For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
- NASB But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Therefore insofar as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
- NLT I am saying all this especially for you Gentiles. God has appointed me as the apostle to the Gentiles. I stress this,
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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.
- 2 Tim 1:11–12For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
- Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- Gal 2:7–9but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
- 1 Tim 2:7to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
- Gal 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
- Rom 15:16–19that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
- Acts 13:2As 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.”
- Gal 2:2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
- Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
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