Romans 15:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

I should

Offering up

1 Peter 2:5

Being

General references

Bible References

I should

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

But I say to you, Gentiles, in so far as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I make much of my position:

But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;

Offering up

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations.

And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

Being

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.

Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.

From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.

Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles: