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

General references

Romans 3:29

Bible References

I should

For I will not be bold to say anything hut of what Christ hath actually wrought by me to bring the gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

For I am speaking to you gentiles; inasmuch as I am the apostle of the gentiles, I magnify my office,

But the Lord said to him, Go; for this man is to me a chosen vessel, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel.

And while they were ministering to the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

And he said to me, Depart; for I will send thee far hence to the gentiles.

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

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?

Let a man so account us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

We then are ambassadors for Christ; as though God were exhorting you by us, in behalf of Christ we entreat you, Be reconciled to God.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

But on the contrary, when they saw that I was intrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, as Peter was with that to the circumcised,

For this cause [I bend my knees], I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you gentiles;

But if I am even poured out on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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

for which I was appointed a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles.

Offering up

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, wellpleasing to God, which is your spiritual worship;

and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God;

But if I am even poured out on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

But I have all, and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus what was sent from you, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

But works of kindness and liberality forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

be ye yourselves also, as living stones, built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Being

and hope will not disappoint us; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which hath been given to us.

In like manner the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedeth with groans which cannot be expressed in words.

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

for through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved whole, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

General references

Or is God [the God] of Jews alone? Is he not also the God of gentiles? Yea, of gentiles also.