Galatians 2:7

World English Bible (2000)

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

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  • 1 Thess 2:4 : 4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,
  • Gal 2:9 : 9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
  • Acts 13:46-48 : 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'" 48 As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
  • Acts 15:12 : 12 All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
  • Acts 15:25-26 : 25 it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 18:6 : 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
  • Acts 28:28 : 28 "Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations. They will also listen."
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
  • Rom 11:13 : 13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
  • 1 Cor 9:17 : 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Tim 1:11 : 11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
  • 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gal 2:8-12
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    86%

    8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

    9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

    10 They only asked us to remember the poor--which very thing I was also zealous to do.

    11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

    12 For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

  • Gal 2:6
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    6 But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

  • Gal 2:14-15
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    14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

    15 "We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

  • Acts 11:1-4
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    1 Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

    2 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

    3 saying, "You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!"

    4 But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

  • Gal 2:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

    3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

    4 This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

  • Acts 15:7-8
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    7 When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

    8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

  • Acts 11:17
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    17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

  • Acts 10:45
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    45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

    19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

  • 1 Tim 1:11
    70%

    11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

  • Rom 4:10
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    10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

  • Rom 2:26-29
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    26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

    28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

    29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
    70%

    4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

  • Gal 1:15-16
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    15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me 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, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  • Rom 15:8
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    8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

  • Eph 2:11
    69%

    11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands);

  • Gal 1:11
    69%

    11 But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.

  • 1 Tim 2:7
    69%

    7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

  • Eph 3:2
    69%

    2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you;

  • 1 Cor 9:2
    69%

    2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

    7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  • Acts 10:34
    68%

    34 Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;

  • Acts 16:3
    68%

    3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  • Eph 3:7-8
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    68%

    7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

    8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

  • Gal 6:12-13
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    68%

    12 As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

    13 For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

  • Rom 11:13
    68%

    13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

  • Acts 15:24
    68%

    24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    68%

    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • Rom 3:30
    68%

    30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

  • 1 Cor 9:17
    68%

    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

  • Gal 1:18
    68%

    18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.