Acts 26:16

Paul Makes His Defense Before King Agrippa

¹⁵ 'Who are you, Lord?' I asked. And the Lord said: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting; ¹⁶  But get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I shall yet appear to you, ¹⁷ Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

Bear Witness

For This Purpose

Jesus

Acts 22:14-15

Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips;

Acts 1:17

For he was one of our number and had his part allotted him in this work of ours."

Acts 1:25

To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place."

Acts 6:4

While we, for our part, will devote ourselves to Prayer, and to the delivery of the Message."

Acts 9:6-9

"Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

Acts 9:15-16

But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.

Acts 13:1-4

Among the members of the Church at Antioch there were several Prophets and Teachers--Barnabas, Simeon who was known by the name of 'Black', Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, foster-brother of Prince Herod, and Saul.

Acts 18:9-10

One night the Lord said to Paul, in a vision: "Have no fear, but continue to speak, and refuse to be silenced;

Acts 20:24

But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus--which was to declare the Good News of the Love of God.

Acts 21:19

After greeting them, Paul related in detail all that God had done among the Gentiles through his efforts;

Acts 22:10

Then I said 'What am I to do, Lord?' 'Get up and go into Damascus,' The Lord said to me, 'and there you shall be told all that you have been appointed to do.'

Acts 22:17-21

After my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying one day in the Temple, I fell into a trance,

Acts 23:11

That night the Lord came and stood by Paul, and said: "Courage! You have borne witness for me in Jerusalem and you must bear witness in Rome also."

Acts 27:23-24

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom I serve, stood by me, and said--

Romans 1:5

Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.

Romans 15:16

Because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles--that I should act as a priest of God's Good News, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since it is by God's mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 5:18

But all this is the work of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation--

2 Corinthians 12:1-7

I must boast! It is unprofitable; but I will pass to visions and revelations given by the Lord.

Galatians 1:12

I, at least, did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a revelation made by Jesus Christ.

Galatians 2:2

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.

Ephesians 3:7-8

Of this Good News I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power--

Colossians 1:7

It is just what you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow- servant, who, as a minister of the Christ, faithfully represents us,

Colossians 1:23

If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Colossians 1:25

Of which I myself became a minister in virtue of the office with which God entrusted me for your benefit, to declare the Message of God in all its fulness--

1 Thessalonians 3:2

And sent Timothy, our Brother and God's minister of the Good News of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,

1 Timothy 1:12

I am thankful to Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has been my strength, for showing that he thought me worthy of trust by appointing me to his ministry,

1 Timothy 4:6

Put all this before the Brethren, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the Faith and of that Good Teaching by which you have guided your life.

2 Timothy 4:5

But you, Timothy, must always be temperate. Face hardships; do the work of a Missionary; discharge all the duties of your Office.