Acts 21:19
21:19 When Paul
had greeted them, he began to explain
in detail
what God
had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 22:21
22:21 Then
he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Acts 26:17-20
26:17 I will rescue
you from your own people
and from the Gentiles, to whom
I am sending you
26:18 to open their eyes so that they turn
from darkness to light and from the power
of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share
among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
26:19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
26:20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.
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 1:13-15
1:13 I do not want you to be unaware,
brothers and sisters,
that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
1:14 I am a debtor
both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
1:15 Thus I am eager
also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.
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 15:15-21
15:15 But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God
15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve
the gospel of God
like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering,
sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
15:17 So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.
15:18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
15:20 And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,
15:21 but as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
Romans 15:1
Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak
15:1 But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
Colossians 1:10
1:10 so that you may live
worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects
– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
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)
Ephesians 3:7-8
3:7 I became a servant of this gospel
according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by
the exercise of his power.
3:8 To me – less than the least of all the saints
– this grace was given,
to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
Colossians 1:25-29
1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship
from God – given to me for you – in order to complete
the word of God,
1:26 that is, the mystery that has been kept hidden from ages and generations, but has now been revealed to his saints.
1:27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious
riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
1:28 We proclaim him by instructing
and teaching
all people
with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature
in Christ.
1:29 Toward this goal
I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully
works in me.
Colossians 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Colossians 2:7
2:7 rooted
and built up in him and firm
in your
faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.