but, as it has been written, "Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and that entered not into the heart of man??hatsoever things God prepared for those who love Him";

because it is the God Who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," Who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him;

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

That

but, on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel of the uncircumcision, as Peter was with that of the circumcision;

But the Lord said to him, "Go your way; because this man is to Me a chosen vessel to bear My name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel;

And He said to me, 'Depart, because I will send you far hence to the gentiles.'

delivering you from the people and the gentiles, to whom I send you,

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the gentiles.

But I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch, indeed, then, as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you gentiles,

of which I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might be saved, for the filling up of their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the uttermost.

whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of gentiles in faith and truth.

for which I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

Immediately

For I make known to you, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed by me is not according to man;

Then, fourteen years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking with me Titus also.

And He said to all, "If any one wishes to come after Me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;

Wherefore, we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now no longer do we know Him thus.

Flesh

And Jesus, answering, said to him, "Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah; because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father Who is in Heaven.

Watch, and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit, indeed, is willing, but the flesh is weak."

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

because to us the struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Since, therefore, the children have partaken of blood and flesh, He Himself also in like manner took part of the same; that, through death, He might bring to nought him who had the power of death, that is, the Devil;

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And, immediately leaving their nets, they followed Him.