Romans 15:16

American Standard Version (1901)

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
  • Rom 11:13 : 13 But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • Isa 66:19-20 : 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an oblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith Jehovah, as the children of Israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
  • Rom 8:26-27 : 26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be uttered; 27 and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
  • Acts 13:2 : 2 And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:32 : 32 And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
  • Acts 22:21 : 21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service. 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
  • Rom 15:29 : 29 And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.
  • 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
  • 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
  • Gal 2:7-8 : 7 but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with [the gospel] of the circumcision 8 (for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles);
  • Gal 3:5 : 5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
  • Eph 2:18 : 18 for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.
  • Eph 2:22-3:1 : 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. 1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

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    31 that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

  • Rom 15:17-20
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    17 I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

    19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

    20 yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation;

  • Col 1:25
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    25 whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

  • Rom 11:13
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    13 But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

  • Rom 15:15
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    15 But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

  • Rom 15:25
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    25 but now, I [say], I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints.

  • Rom 15:8-9
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    8 For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises [given] unto the fathers,

    9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

    16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • Acts 26:16-17
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    16 But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear unto thee;

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  • Eph 3:7-8
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    7 whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

    8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

  • Rom 14:18
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    18 For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.

  • 1 Tim 1:11-12
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    11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

    12 I thank him that enabled me, [even] Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to [his] service;

  • Acts 11:17
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    17 If then God gave unto them the like gift as [he did] also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

    16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

    17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
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    11 whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

    11 For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man.

  • Rom 1:1
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    1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11 Whether then [it be] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, [even] from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

    16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

  • 2 Cor 11:7-8
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    7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

    8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

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    17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

  • Eph 3:1
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    1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,--

  • Acts 13:47
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    47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.

  • Rom 1:13
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    13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19 And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • 2 Cor 8:19
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    19 and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in [the matter of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness:

  • Gal 2:8
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    8 (for he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles);

  • Acts 20:24
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    24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

  • Rom 15:28
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    28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

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