Galatians 1:16

Paul's Defense Of His Apostleship

¹⁵ When the one having separated me, from the womb of my mother, and called me through his grace, was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: ¹⁷ neither did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

Among the Nations

Flesh and Blood

Good News

In Me

God Revealed

Preach The Good News

Matthew 16:17

And Jesus responding said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon the son of Jonah: because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

Acts 9:15

And the Lord said to him, Go: because he is a vessel of election to me, to bear my name both before the Gentiles, and kings, and sons of Israel:

Matthew 26:41

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

Luke 9:23-25

And He spoke to all, If any one wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Luke 9:59-62

And He said to another, Follow thou me. And he said, Lord, permit me first having gone away to bury my father.

Acts 22:21

And He said to me, Go: because I will send thee far away to the Gentiles.

Acts 26:17-20

delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

Romans 1:13-14

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that frequently I purposed to come to you, and was hindered hitherto, in order that I may have some fruit among you, as well as also among other Gentiles.

Romans 11:13

But I speak to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry:

Romans 15:16-19

that I should be the minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles may be well received, having been sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 2:9-13

But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

1 Corinthians 15:50

But I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood are not able to inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

2 Corinthians 4:6

Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that we from now know no man after the flesh: if indeed we have known Christ after the flesh, but we now know him no more.

Galatians 1:11-12

But I make known to you, brethren, the gospel was preached to me, that it is not according to a man;

Galatians 2:1

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

Galatians 2:6-9

But of those seeming to be something what they were at that time makes no difference to me: God does not receive the face of man: for those seeming to me to be prominent added nothing extra:

Ephesians 1:17-18

in order that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may grant unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the perfect knowledge of himself;

Ephesians 6:12

because there is not to us fighting against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.

Colossians 1:25-27

whose minister I became, according to the economy of God which was given to me unto you, to fulfill the word of God,

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding that we should speak to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved; that they may fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

1 Timothy 2:7

in which I have been placed a herald and an apostle I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and in truth.

2 Timothy 1:11

unto which I have been placed a herald, and an apostle, and teacher:

Hebrews 2:14

Then since the children have inherited blood and flesh, he likewise also received the same, in order that through death he might set at nought him who has the power of death, that is, the devil;