1 Corinthians 9:2-3
9:2 If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign
of my apostleship in the Lord.
9:3 This is my defense to those who examine me.
1 Corinthians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,
1 Corinthians 15:8-9
15:8 Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time,
he appeared to me also.
15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Acts 9:15
9:15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument
to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.
Acts 13:2
13:2 While they were serving
the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart
for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 14:4
14:4 But the population
of the city was divided; some
sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
Acts 22:14-15
22:14 Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors
has already chosen
you to know his will, to see
the Righteous One,
and to hear a command
from his mouth,
22:15 because you will be his witness
to all people
of what you have seen and heard.
Acts 16:17-18
16:17 She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out,
“These men are servants
of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way
of salvation.”
16:18 She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed,
and turned
and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ
to come out of her!” And it came out of her at once.
Romans 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.
Romans 1:5
1:5 Through him
we have received grace and our apostleship
to bring about the obedience
of faith
among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.
Romans 11:13
11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
Romans 11:2
11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
Colossians 1:5
1:5 Your faith and love have arisen
from the hope laid up
for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel
Colossians 1:11-12
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of
all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share
in the saints’
inheritance in the light.
Galatians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)
Galatians 1:15-17
1:15 But when the one
who set me apart from birth
and called me by his grace was pleased
1:16 to reveal his Son in
me so that I could preach him
among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from
any human being,
1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem
to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia,
and then returned to Damascus.
Galatians 2:7-8
2:7 On the contrary, when they saw
that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised
just as Peter was to the circumcised
2:8 (for he who empowered
Peter for his apostleship
to the circumcised
also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
Galatians 2:1
Confirmation from the Jerusalem Apostles
2:1 Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.
Galatians 2:7
2:7 On the contrary, when they saw
that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised
just as Peter was to the circumcised
Galatians 2:2
2:2 I went there
because of
a revelation and presented
to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so
only in a private meeting with the influential people,
to make sure that I was not running – or had not run
– in vain.
Galatians 1:11
Paul’s Vindication of His Apostleship
1:11 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin.
Titus 1:1-3
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness,
1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began.
1:3 But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.