How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

I speak

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.

A teacher

The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

But 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.

"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

In faith

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Verity

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

General references

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.