Galatians 1:16

Paul's Defense Of His Apostleship

¹⁵ But when He who set me apart even from my birth, and called me by His grace, ¹⁶ saw fit to reveal His Son within me in order that I might tell among the Gentiles the Good News concerning Him, at once I did not confer with any human being, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were my seniors in the Apostleship, but I went away into Arabia, and afterwards came back to Damascus.

Among the Nations

Flesh and Blood

Good News

In Me

God Revealed

Preach The Good News

Matthew 16:17

"Blessed are you, Simon Bar-jonah," said Jesus; "for mere human nature has not revealed this to you, but my Father in Heaven.

Acts 9:15

"Go," replied the Lord; "he is a chosen instrument of Mine to carry My name to the Gentiles and to kings and to the descendants of Israel.

Matthew 26:41

Keep awake, and pray that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit is right willing, but the body is frail."

Luke 9:23-25

And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.

Luke 9:59-62

"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."

Acts 22:21

"'Go,' He replied; 'I will send you as an Apostle to nations far away.'"

Acts 26:17-20

I will save you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you to open their eyes,

Romans 1:13-14

And I desire you to know, brethren, that I have many a time intended to come to you--though until now I have been disappointed--in order that among you also I might gather some fruit from my labours, as I have already done among the rest of the Gentile nations.

Romans 11:13

But to you Gentiles I say that, since I am an Apostle specially sent to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry,

Romans 15:16-19

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is)

1 Corinthians 2:9-13

But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them that love Him.

1 Corinthians 15:50

But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, "Out of darkness let light shine," is He who has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

Galatians 1:11-12

For I must tell you, brethren, that the Good News which was proclaimed by me is not such as man approves of.

Galatians 2:1

Later still, after an interval of fourteen years, I again went up to Jerusalem in company with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

Galatians 2:6-9

From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me--God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new.

Ephesians 1:17-18

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles--

Ephesians 3:5-10

which in earlier ages was not made known to the human race, as it has now been revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets through the Spirit--

Ephesians 6:12

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

Colossians 1:25-27

I have been appointed to serve the Church in the position of responsibility entrusted to me by God for your benefit, so that I may fully deliver God's Message--

1 Thessalonians 2:16

for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them.

1 Timothy 2:7

and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction)

2 Timothy 1:11

of which I have been appointed a preacher, Apostle and teacher, to the Gentiles.

Hebrews 2:14

Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,