Romans 15:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

I should

Offering up

1 Peter 2:5

Being

General references

Bible References

I should

I will not dare to speak of any of those things that Christ has not accomplished through me. I will lead the nations to obey God in word and deed.

I speak to you people of the nations. For I am the apostle to the nations and I glorify (honor) (praise) (celebrate) my ministry.

The Lord said to him: Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel.

As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.

The Lord said: 'Go! I will send you far away to the people of the nations.'

I will rescue you from the people and the nations. I am sending you to them.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

People should regard us as servants of Christ. God has trusted us with his secrets.

We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news to people who are not circumcised. Just as Peter had been entrusted with the good news to the people who are circumcised.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you people of the nations.

If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with you all.

Because of this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle. What I say is true, not false, and I am a teacher of the nations in the true faith.

I was appointed to be a messenger of this good news, an apostle, and a teacher.

Offering up

I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

I will set up a sign among them and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands who have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will tell about my glory among the nations.

This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with you all.

I have all things, and prosper: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you. It is an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

Do not forget (neglect) to do good and to communicate (fellowship) (share), for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Being

Hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. It comes through Holy Spirit, which is God's gift to us.

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit [of God] makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken.

Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

We both have access to the Father by one Spirit through him.

May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

He also brought a gold dish that weighed four ounces, filled with incense,

and that there will always be priests from the tribe of Levi to serve me and to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrifices.'

The daughter of my scattered ones (my people) (my worshippers) will bring an offering to me from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the nations also? Yes, of the nations also.