Romans 15:16

World English Bible (2000)

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
  • 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;
  • 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.
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • Isa 66:19-20 : 19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as 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 doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • Rom 8:26-27 : 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered. 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
  • Acts 13:2 : 2 As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
  • Acts 20:32 : 32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
  • Acts 22:21 : 21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
  • Rom 15:29 : 29 I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
  • 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
  • 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
  • 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 This was 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 servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
  • Gal 2:7-8 : 7 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 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);
  • Gal 3:5 : 5 He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
  • Eph 2:18 : 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
  • Eph 2:22-3:1 : 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. 1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on 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, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
  • 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • 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.

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    31that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

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

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

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

    20yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

  • Col 1:25
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    25of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

  • Rom 11:13
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    13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

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    15But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

  • Rom 15:25
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    25But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

  • Rom 15:8-9
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    8Now 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,

    9and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    15So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

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    16But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

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    7of 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.

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

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    18For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

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

    12And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

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    17If 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?"

  • 1 Cor 9:15-18
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    15But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

    16For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News.

    17For 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.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

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    11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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

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    1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

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    9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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

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    15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,

    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

    8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

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    1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

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    13whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

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    17Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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    1For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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    47For 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.'"

  • 1 Cor 9:23
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    23Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • Rom 1:13
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    13Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

  • Acts 21:19
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    19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • 2 Cor 8:19
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    19Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

  • Gal 2:8
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    8(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

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    24But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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    28When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.