Acts 26:16

Paul Makes His Defense Before King Agrippa

¹⁵ And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking. ¹⁶ But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me; ¹⁷ And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Bear Witness

For This Purpose

Jesus

Acts 22:14-15

And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth.

Ezekiel 2:1

And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.

Daniel 10:11

And he said to me, O Daniel, you man dearly loved, take in the sense of the words I say to you and get up on to your feet: for to you I am now sent; and when he had said this to me I got on to my feet, shaking with fear.

Acts 1:17

For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

Acts 1:25

To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

Acts 6:4

Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

Acts 9:6-9

But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

Acts 9:15-16

But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

Acts 13:1-4

Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.

Acts 18:9-10

And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:

Acts 20:24

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

Acts 21:19

And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles.

Acts 22:10

And I said, What have I to do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up, and go into Damascus; and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.

Acts 22:17-21

And it came about that when I had come back to Jerusalem, while I was at prayer in the Temple, my senses became more than naturally clear,

Acts 23:11

And the night after, the Lord came to his side and said, Be of good heart, for as you have been witnessing for me in Jerusalem, so will you be my witness in Rome.

Acts 27:23-24

For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

Romans 1:5

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Romans 15:16

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:1

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

2 Corinthians 5:18

But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

2 Corinthians 12:1-7

As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Galatians 1:12

For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 2:2

And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

Ephesians 3:7-8

Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

Colossians 1:7

As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,

Colossians 1:23

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Colossians 1:25

Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,

1 Thessalonians 3:2

We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;

1 Timothy 1:12

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

1 Timothy 4:6

If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

2 Timothy 4:5

But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.