But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood upon the godless world;

I speak

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

I am telling the truth as a Christian, it is no falsehood, for my conscience under the holy Spirit's influence bears me witness in it,

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is forever blessed, knows that I am telling the truth.

(In writing you this, I call God to witness that I am telling the truth!)

A teacher

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you

But it is to you who are of the heathen that I am speaking. So far then as I am an apostle to the heathen, I make the most of my ministry,

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,

In faith

When they arrived there, they called the church together, and reported how God had worked with them, and how he had opened the way to faith for the heathen.

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

So the men of faith share the blessing of Abraham and his faith.

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of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.