77 Bible Verses about Paul, Apostle To Gentiles

But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace, to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood,

And on going, it came to pass for him to approach Damascus. And suddenly there shone around him a light out of heaven. And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? And he said, Who are thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecute.read more.
But arise, and enter into the city, and it will be told thee what thou must do. And the men who traveled with him had stopped, speechless, indeed hearing the voice, but seeing no man. And Saul arose from the ground. And when his eyes were opened, he saw no man. But they brought him into Damascus, leading him by the hand. And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink. Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus, named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold me, Lord. And the Lord said to him, After rising, go into the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, a man named Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. And he saw in a vision a man named Ananias who came in and laid a hand on him, so that he might receive sight. But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many evil things he did to thy sanctified at Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name. But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel. For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name. And Ananias departed and entered into the house. And having laid hands on him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, he who appeared to thee on the road on which thou came, has sent me so that thou may receive sight, and be filled of Hol And straightaway there fell from his eyes, like scales, and he looked up. And immediately after rising up, he was immersed. And having received nourishment, he was strengthened. And Saul became with the disciples in Damascus some days.

And there happened to me, while going and approaching Damascus about noon, suddenly to flash forth from heaven a great light around me. And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? And I answered, Who are thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecute.read more.
And those who were with me indeed saw the light and became afraid, but they heard not the voice of him who spoke to me. And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, After rising, go into Damascus, and there it will be told thee about all things that have been assigned for thee to do. And as I was not seeing from the splendor of that light, I came into Damascus, being led by hand by those who accompanied me. And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report by all the Jews who dwell there, having come near me, and having stood by, he said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And I looked up on him the same hour. And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous man, and to hear a voice from his mouth, because thou will be a witness for him to all men of the things that thou have seen and heard. And now what is it going to be? Having arisen, immerse and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

And during which, while going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the road a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, which shone around me and those who went with me. And when we all fell to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goads.read more.
And I said, Who are thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecute. But arise, and stand upon thy feet, for I appeared to thee for this, to appoint thee an assistant and a witness both of things that thou saw, and of the things that I will make visible to thee, delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send thee, to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are ye not my work in Lord?

and James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, when they understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship. So that we were for the Gentiles, and they for me

And he said to me, Depart, because I will send thee far away to Gentiles.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good-news of Christ. And thus having aspired to proclaim the good-news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,read more.
but, as it is written, They will see to whom it was not reported about him, and they will understand who have not heard.

But we will not boast in things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the standard that God apportioned to us, of a measure to reach even as far as you. For it is not as not reaching for you. We overextend ourselves. For we even reached as far as you in the good-news of the Christ, not boasting in things immeasurable, in other men's labors, but having hope of your faith growing in you to be enlarged according to our measure for abundance,read more.
in order to preach the good-news beyond you, not to boast in another measure, in things prepared.

Of which I became a helper according to the gift of that grace of God, which was given to me according to the working of his power. To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ, and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So the willingness is in me to preach the good-news also to you in Rome.

Having seen therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. But we have been manifested to God, and I hope also to have been manifested in your consciences. For we are not commending ourselves again to you, but giving you an opportunity of boasting about us, so that ye may have for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. For whether we are beside ourselves to God, or we are of normal mind, it is for you.read more.
For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others. While able to bear down as apostles of Christ, nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children. Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.read more.
For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

My defense to those who examine me is this. Have we no, not a right to eat and to drink? Have we no, not a right to lead about a sister wife, as also the other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?read more.
Or have only I and Barnabas no right not to be occupied earning a living? Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock? Do I say these things according to man, or does not the law also say these things? For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen, or does he speak altogether for our sake? For our sake, for it was written, He who plows ought to plow with hope, and he who threshes with his hope, with hope to share. If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we will reap your carnal things? If others are partakers of the right from you, are not we more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we cover all things, so that we may not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ. Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar? And so the Lord commanded those who proclaim the good-news to live from the good-news. But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty. For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news. For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

For what is there which ye were inferior to the other congregations? Except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

I say the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience testifying to me in the Holy Spirit, that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart. For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

For although being free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that I might gain the more. And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews, to those under law, as under law, so that I might gain those under law, to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ), so that I might gain men without law.read more.
To the weak I became as weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, so that by all means I might save some. And I do this for sake of the good-news, so that I might become a fellow participant of it.

But I want you to know, brothers, that the things in respect to me have come more for the advancement of the good-news, in order for my bonds in Christ to became apparent in the whole Praetorium, and in all the others. And more of the brothers in Lord have been convinced by my bonds to be much more bold to speak the word fearlessly.read more.
Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will. Some indeed proclaim the Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to bring affliction to my bonds. But some from love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the good-news. What then? Except in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice, but also I will rejoice. For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ) according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not. And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary because of you. And having been convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and will continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith. So that your pride may abound in Christ Jesus in me because of my presence with you again.

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted. I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.read more.
Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us, restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.read more.
Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body.

giving not one cause of stumbling in anything, so that the ministry may not be criticized, but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,read more.
in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love, in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left, through glory and disrepute, through slander and commendation; as deceitful, and yet true; as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death; as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold. Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too. Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.read more.
From the Jews five times I received forty save one. Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among FALSE brothers, in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness. Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not made fiery?

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing. Indeed the signs of the apostle were performed among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

And after going through the island as far as Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a Jewish FALSE prophet, whose name was Bar-jesus, who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) opposed them, seeking to deviate the proconsul from the faith.read more.
But Saul (the man is also Paul) having been filled with Holy Spirit, and having gazed on him, said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of Lord? And now, behold, a hand of Lord is upon thee, and thou will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And immediately there fell on him gloom and darkness, and going around he sought hand-guides. Then the proconsul, who saw that which happened, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so as to even bring handkerchiefs or aprons from his skin to those who were incapacitated and to free their infirmities from them, and the evil spirits to go out from them.

For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of a spirit of God, so that for me, from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum, to fully preach the good-news of Christ.

And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power, so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Knowing, beloved brothers, your selection by God, because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, if somehow I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.read more.
Therefore also we aspire, whether at home or away from home, to be well-pleasing to him. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of the Christ, so that each man may receive back about the things that he did through the body, whether good or bad.

according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if to live in flesh, this is fruit of labor to me, then what I will choose I know not.read more.
And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

For I am already poured out a libation, and the time of my dissolution is imminent. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me in that day, and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich he became poor for your sakes, so that by that man's poverty ye might become rich.

Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification. For Christ also did not please himself, but as it is written, The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell upon me.

Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal to God something to seize and hold. But he emptied himself, having taken a form of a bondman, having become in a likeness of men.read more.
And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Become ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children. For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news. I beseech you therefore, become followers of me.read more.
Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I reckon myself not to have seized, but one thing, indeed forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to the things ahead, I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.read more.
As many therefore as are perfect should think this way. And if ye think anything differently, this also God will reveal to you. However in what we have attained, to march by the same standard, to think the same way. Brothers, become fellow-imitators of me, and watch those who so walk, just as ye have us for an example.

Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition, which they received from us. For ye yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us. Because we did not act disorderly among you, nor did we eat bread gratis from any man, but in labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden any of you.read more.
Not because we have no right, but that we might give ourselves an example to you, in order to imitate us.

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ. But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.read more.
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive. But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us, restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.read more.
Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body. For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. So death indeed works in us, but life in you.

Finally, let no man cause troubles for me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

And from Miletus having sent to Ephesus, he summoned the elders of the congregation. And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I stepped in Asia, how I became with you all the time, serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews.read more.
How I kept back nothing of these things that are beneficial, not to inform you, and to teach you in public, and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged. But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe, just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting, and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in bowels of Jesus Christ.

Or did I commit a sin lowering myself so that ye might be lifted up, because I preached to you the good-news of God freely? I robbed other congregations, having taken a wage in order for your service. And being present with you, and when needy, I was a burden to no man. For the brothers who came from Macedonia, they supplied my need. And in everything I kept, and I will keep myself non-burdensome to you.read more.
The truth of Christ is in me that this pride in me will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward each other, and toward all men, just as also we toward you,

We thank God always about all of you, making recollection of you in our prayers,

Truly, I first express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love for all the sanctified, I cease not expressing thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers. So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowledge of him,read more.
having the eyes of your heart enlightened. For you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the sanctified. And what is the transcending greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his might,

For which also we pray always about you, so that our God will make you worthy of the calling, and will fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power. So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Brothers, pray about us.

Now I beseech you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God for me. So that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may become acceptable to the sanctified, so that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and be rested with you.

and for me, so that utterance may be given to me in boldness in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good-news, for which I am an ambassador in bondage, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

We are therefore, ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were calling through us. We plead on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

And thus having aspired to proclaim the good-news not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build upon a foundation belonging to another man,

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder, I laid a foundation and another man is building on it. But let each man take heed how he is building on it.

Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth. So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who causes growth.read more.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor. For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.

For though ye have countless instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I begot you through the good-news.

just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting, and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.

nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others. While able to bear down as apostles of Christ, nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children.

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us. Because we are a fragrance of Christ to God, in those being saved and in those perishing: to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle separated for the good-news of God

Paul and Timothy, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the sanctified in Jesus Christ who are at Philippi, with the guardians and helpers:

Paul, a bondman of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the knowledge of truth according to piety,

Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace in Christ Jesus. And what thou have heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit thou to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

Hold the pattern of sound words that thou heard from me, in faith and love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good consignment through the Holy Spirit that dwells in us.