Romans 11:13

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

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

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.

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

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,

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

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

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

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.

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

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For 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.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

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.”

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

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

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.