Acts 26:16

Paul Makes His Defense Before King Agrippa

¹⁵ "'Who are you, Lord?' I said." And the Lord said: 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶  "'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you. ¹⁷ "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

Bear Witness

For This Purpose

Jesus

Acts 22:14-15

"Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Acts 1:17

"For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry.

Acts 1:25

"in this ministry of this apostles from which Judas went out to go to his own place."

Acts 6:4

"But we will give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word."

Acts 9:6-9

"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he said: "Stand up and go into the city, and there you shall be told what you must do."

Acts 9:15-16

"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

Acts 13:1-4

Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 18:9-10

And the Lord said to Paul in a vision, by night. "Have no fear; go on speaking, and do not keep silent;

Acts 20:24

But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

Acts 21:19

After saluting them Paul rehearsed, one by one, the things that God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.

Acts 22:10

"And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' and the Lord said to me, 'Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that you are destined to do.'

Acts 22:17-21

"After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple,

Acts 23:11

And the following night the Lord stood by him and said: "Be of good courage; for as you have borne faithful witness concerning me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome also."

Acts 27:23-24

"for last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me and said:

Romans 1:5

It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

Romans 15:16

I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:1

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 5:18

And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation;

2 Corinthians 12:1-7

I am forced to boast, though it is unprofitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Galatians 1:12

for neither did I myself receive it from man, nor by man was I taught it, but by a revelation an apocalypse of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 2:2

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

Ephesians 3:7-8

It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

Colossians 1:7

as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf,

Colossians 1:23

And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Colossians 1:25

It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;

1 Thessalonians 3:2

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

1 Timothy 1:12

And I am thankful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has thus enabled me, that he accounted me faithful, and appointed me to his service,

1 Timothy 4:6

As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.