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

Being

1 Thessalonians 5:23

General references

Romans 3:29

Bible References

I should

For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

For to you who are Gentiles I say that since I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

And as they were worshiping the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

"'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

Offering up

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus??n odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

And forget not to be kind and liberal; for with that sort of sacrifice God is well pleased.

And yourselves like living stones be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, through Christ Jesus.

Being

In the same way the Spirit also takes hold with us in our weakness; for we know knot how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

"And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. He is able to build you up, and to give you your inheritance among all those who are consecrated.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

because it is through him that we both have access in one spirit to the Father.

May the God of peace consecrate you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

Is God then the God of the Jews alone, and not of the Gentiles also? He is God of the Gentiles also,