77 Bible Verses about Paul, Apostle To Gentiles

And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might announce him the good news in the nations; I consulted not with flesh and blood:

And in going, it was he drawing near to Damascus: and suddenly a light from heaven flashed with lightning around him: And having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why drivest thou me out? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou drivest out: hard for thee to kick against goads.read more.
And he trembling and amazed said, Lord, What wilt thou me to do? And the Lord to him, Arise, and come into the city, and it shall be spoken to thee what thou must do. And the men journeying with him stood astonished, hearing the voice truly, and seeing no one. And Saul was raised up from the earth; and his eyes being opened, he saw no one: and leading him by the hand, they brought him to Damascus. And he was three days not seeing, and he ate not, nor drank. And a certain disciple was in Damascus, Ananias by name; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I, Lord. And the Lord to him, Having risen, go thou to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas Saul by name, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays, And he saw in a vision a man, by name Ananias, coming in, and having put hand upon him, so that he might look up and see again. And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how many evils he did to thy holy ones in Jerusalem: And here has he authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on thy name. And the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a vessel of choice to me, to lift up my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel: For I will show him what he must suffer for my name. And Ananias departed, and came into the house; and having put hands upon him said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, he seen to thee in the way which thou earnest, so that thou mightest look up, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And quickly there fell from his eyes as scales: and he immediately looked up, and having risen, he was immersed. And having taken food, he was strong. And Saul was in Damascus with the disciples certain days.

And it was to me going, and drawing near to Damascus about noon, suddenly much light from heaven flashed around me, And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarite, whom thou drivest out.read more.
And they being with me truly saw the light, and were terrified; but they heard not the voice of him speaking to me. And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Having risen, go to Damascus; and there shall be told thee of all which has been arranged for thee to do. And when I saw not from the glory of that light, led by the hand of them being with me I came to Damascus. And a certain Ananias, a religious man according to the law, testified of by all the Jews dwelling, Having come to me, and stood, said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And the same hour I looked up to him. And he said, The God of our fathers took thee in hand, to know his will, and to see the Just, and hear the voice from his mouth. For thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what thou hast seen and hast heard. And now what art thou about to do having risen, be immersed and wash away thy sins, having called upon the name of the Lord.

In which also going to Damascus with authority, and superintendence from the chief priests, The middle of day, I saw in the way, O king, a light from heaven, above the brilliancy of the sun, having shone around me, and those going with me. And we having all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why drivest thou me out? hard for thee to kick against goads.read more.
And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou drivest out. But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to take thee in hand, a servant and witness both of what things thou sawest, and of what I shall be seen to thee; Taking thee away from people, and nations, to whom I now send thee. To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.

Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord

And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.

And he said to me, Go: for I will send thee far off to the nations.

For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work, By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ. And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:read more.
But as has been written, to whom it was not announced of him, they shall see: and they who have not heard shall understand.

And we boast not of things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure divided to us, to reach even also to you. For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ: Not boasting in things immeasurable, in the toils of others; and having hope, your faith being increased, to be enlarged in you according to our rule for abundance,read more.
To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared.

Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ. And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news!

Both to Greeks, and foreigners; both to wise and unwise, I am debtor. So that for my part being zealous, also to you that in Rome, to announce the good news.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences. For not again do we recommend ourselves to you, but giving you occasion for boasting over us, that ye might have for them boasting in face, and not in heart. For whether we be beside ourselves, to God: or be of sound mind, to you.read more.
For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:

Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ. But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children: So longing for you, we are contented to impart to you, not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because ye are dearly beloved to us.read more.
For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.

My justification to them examining me is this, have we not power to eat and to drink? Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife; as also the rest of the sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?read more.
Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power not to work? Who makes war at any time at his own charges who plants a vineyard, and eats not of its fruit or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock? Not according to man do I speak these things: or does not the law also say these things? For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen? Or does he say altogether on account of us? For it was written on account of us: that he ploughing ought to plough upon hope; and he grinding upon hope, to participate with his hope. If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it great if we shall reap your carnal things? If others participate with your power, not rather we? But we used not this power; but endure all things, lest we give some hindrance to the good news of Christ. Do ye not know that they working consecrated things, eat of the temple? they working diligently at the altar, share together with the altar? Thus also the Lord appointed to them announcing good news to live of the good news. But I used none of these things: and I wrote not these things, that thus it might be with me: for good to me rather to die, than that any should render my boasting void. For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news! For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. What reward therefore is to me? That announcing good news, I shall make the good news of Christ not expensive, not to make use of my power in the good news.

For what is it which ye were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself acted not with negligence to you? favor me for this injustice.

For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.

I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit, That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart. For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more. And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law; To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,read more.
I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some. And this. I do on account of the good news, that I might become a partaker of it.

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things. concerning me have rather gone to the advancement of the good news; So that my bonds in Christ were manifest in the whole pretorium, and to all the rest; And many of the brethren in the Lord, having trusted to my bonds, more abundantly dared to speak the word fearlessly.read more.
And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ. Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds: And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news: For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice. For I know that this shall be turned to me for salvation by your prayer, and the furnishing more of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die gain. And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know not For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:) And to tarry yet longer in the flesh is more necessary for you. And confident in this, I know that I shall remain, and shall remain near together with you all for your advancement and joy of faith: That your boasting may abound in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming again to you.

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up. For this thrice besought I the Lord, that it remove away from me. And he said to me, My grace suffices thee: for my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore very willingly will I boast rather in my weaknesses, that Christ's power may lodge upon me.read more.
Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us. Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;read more.
Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed: But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities, In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;read more.
In purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned. In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left, Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true; As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed; As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

I speak according to dishonour, as that we were weak. And in what any dares, (I speak in rashness,) I dare also. Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also. Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.read more.
Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one. Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep; In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren; In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed

I have been mad boasting; ye forced me: for I ought to have been recommended by you: for I was not greatly inferior to the sent, if also I am nothing. Surely the signs of one sent was wrought in you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and powers.

And having passed through the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, the name to him Barjesus: Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paul, an intelligent man; he having called Barnabas and Saul, sought anxiously to hear the word of God. And Elymas the magician withstood them, (for so was his name interpreted,) seeking to turn the proconsul from the faith.read more.
And Saul, (also Paul,) filled with the Holy Spirit, and looking intently upon him, said, O, full of deceit, and all dexterity, son of the devil, enemy of all justice, Wilt thou cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun till the time. And immediately fell upon him mist and darkness; and going about he sought leading by hand. Then the proconsul having seen that done, he believed, being struck with amazement at the teaching of the Lord.

And God did special powers by Paul's hands: So that also upon the sick were brought from his body napkins or aprons, and diseases were removed from them, and evil spirits came out of them.

For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work, By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ.

And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power That your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Knowing, brethren beloved, of God your selection. For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death; If somehow I shall arrive at the rising up of the dead.

Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:) And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.read more.
Wherefore also let us seek the honour, whether being at home, whether being absent, to be pleasing to him. For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die gain. And if to live in the flesh, this to me the fruit of work: and whether I shall be taken away I know notread more.
For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:) And to tarry yet longer in the flesh is more necessary for you.

For I am already poured out, and the time of my deliverance has been fixed. I have contended earnestly the good contest, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith: As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.

And we the able ought to bear the weaknesses of the unable and not please ourselves. For let each of us please the neighbor for good to the building. For Christ also pleased not himself, but as has been written, The reproaches of them reproaching thee fell upon me

For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus; Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men:read more.
And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross. Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earth And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father.

Be ye imitators of me, as I also of Christ.

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you. For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you. I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.read more.
Therefore sent I Timothens to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of all my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in all the churches.

Not that I have alreaedy attained or have been already perfected: and I pursue, if I also may overtake, for which also I was overtaken by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.read more.
Therefore, as many as are completed, let us have this in mind; and if in any thing ye think otherwise, God will also reveal this to you. But, at what we before arrived, to walk by the same rule, to think the same. Be ye imitators together of me, brethren, and observe narrowly those walking thus, as ye have us for a type.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things. And what things ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

And we proclaim to you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for you to shrink from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the doctrine which he received of us. For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you; Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:read more.
Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort. And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation. And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.read more.
For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live: And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us. Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed; Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;read more.
Always bearing about in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our body. For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So that death is truly energetic in us, and life in you.

For the rest let none cause me fatigues: for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ in my body

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

And having sent from Miletus to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the church. And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I embarked for Asia, how I was with you all the time Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews:read more.
how I concealed nothing of things profitable, not to announce to you, and teach you publicly, and in the houses, Testifying to both Jews, and Greeks, repentance towards God, and the faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage; But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

Ye witnesses, and God, how holily and justly and unblamably we were to you the believing: As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying, For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory.

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

Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously? I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service. And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.read more.
The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be shut up in me in the regions of Achaia. Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.

Behold, I have prepared to come to you the third time; and I will not act with negligence to you: for I seek not your things, but you: for children ought not to treasure up for parents, but parents for children. And I very willingly will expend and be expended for your souls; if also loving you more abundantly, the less I should be loved.

And the Lord increase you and make you to abound in love to one another, and to all, as also we to you:

We return thanks to God always for you all, making remembrance of you in our prayers continually;

First, I return thanks to my God by Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is announced in the whole world. For my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, so that continually I make mention of you, always supplicating in my prayers; If in any way I shall be prospered on my way in the will of God to come to you.

For this, I also, having heard the faith among you in the Lord Jesus, and love to all the holy, Cease not returning thanks for you, making remembrance of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in his knowledge:read more.
The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones, And what the surpassing greatness of his power to us believing, according to the action of the might of his strength,

For which also we pray always for you, that our God would deem you worthy of the calling, and fill all the benevolence of goodness, and work of faith in power: So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Brethren, pray for us.

And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by love of the Spirit, to fight together with me in prayers for me to God; That I might be saved from the unbelieving in Judea; and that my service for Jerusalem be acceptable to the holy ones; That in joy I might come to you by the will of God, and rest with you.

And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news, For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak.

For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:

According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise chief-architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon. And let each see how he builds upon.

Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased. So that neither he planting is anything, neither he watering; but God increasing.read more.
And he planting and he watering are one: and each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are workers together with God: the agriculture of God, ye are the building of God.

For if ye have ten thousand preceptors in Christ, but not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus by the good news I begat you.

As ye know how each one of you, as a father his children, comforting and encouraging, and testifying, For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory.

My children, for whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you,

Neither seeking glory of men, nor of you, nor of others, being able to be in weight, as the sent of Christ. But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men.

Grace to God, always leading us to triumph in Christ, and making manifest the order of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host: Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?

Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Paul, servant of God, and sent of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the acknowledgment of the truth according to devotion;

Thou therefore, my child, be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus. And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.

Hold the model of sound words, which thou didst hear of me, in the faith and love which in Christ Jesus. Watch the good deposit by the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.