Acts 15:7
After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.
Acts 15:2
This created a disturbance and a serious discussion between Paul and Barnabas and them, and it was agreed that Paul and Barnabas and some others of their number should go up to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts 10:20
Get up and go down, and go with them without any hesitation, for I have sent them."
Matthew 16:18-19
But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.
John 3:27
John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.
John 15:16
It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.
Acts 1:16
"Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus??17 for he was one of our number and a share in this ministry of ours fell to his lot."
Acts 1:24
And they prayed, saying, "Lord, you who know all hearts, show us which one of these two you have chosen
Acts 3:18
it was in this way that God fulfilled what he by all the prophets foretold that his Christ must suffer.
Acts 4:25
and who said through the holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your slave, " 'Why did the heathen rage, And the peoples form vain designs?
Acts 9:15
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.
Acts 10:5-6
Now send men to Joppa, for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter.
Acts 10:32-48
So send to Joppa and invite Simon who is called Peter to come here. He is staying at the house of a tanner named Simon, close to the sea.'
Acts 11:12-18
and the Spirit told me not to hesitate to go with them. These six brothers here also went with me, and we went to the man's house.
Acts 13:2
As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."
Acts 15:39
They differed so sharply about it that they separated, and Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus.
Acts 20:24
But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.
Romans 10:17-18
So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.
Galatians 2:7-9
On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews??8 for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen??9 and when they recognized the favor God had shown me, James, Cephas, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, pledged Barnabas and me their co-operation, with the understanding that we should work among the heathen and they among the Jews.
Philippians 2:14
Do everything without any grumbling or disputing,