Acts 26:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

Rise

Acts 9:6

Acts 22:10

To make

Acts 9:15

Acts 13:1

Acts 22:14

A minister

In the

Galatians 2:2

General references

Proverbs 14:25

Bible References

Rise

But get up and enter into the city, and it will be told to you {what you must do}."

So I said, 'What should I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up [and] proceed to Damascus, and there it will be told to you about all [the things] that have been appointed for you to do.'

To make

But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel.

Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church that was there: Barnabas, and Simeon (who was called Niger), and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth,

A minister

because he was counted among us and received a share in this ministry."

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

And [after] greeting them, he began to relate {one after the other} [the things] which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,

with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Because of this, [since we] have this ministry, just as we have been shown mercy, we do not lose heart,

And all these [things] [are] from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

of which I became a servant, according to the gift of God's grace given to me, according to the working of his power.

just as you learned [it] from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave who is a faithful minister of Christ [on] our behalf,

and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you about your faith,

{I give thanks} to the one who strengthens me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful, placing [me] into ministry,

[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

In the

And the Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not keep silent,

"And it happened that [when] I returned to Jerusalem and I was praying in the temple courts, I was in a trance,

And the next night the Lord stood by him [and] said, "Have courage, for as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome."

For this night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve came to me,

It is necessary to boast; [it is] not profitable, but I will proceed to visions and revelations of the Lord.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught [it], but [I received it] through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

General references

He who saves lives [is] a witness of truth, but he who utters lies [is] a betrayer.