And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.
Galatians 1:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with any human, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the glad tidings (Gospel), immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood [did not consult or counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone]. American Standard Version (1901) to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood: Common English Bible to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach about him to the Gentiles. I didn’t immediately consult with any human being. Catholic Public Domain Version to reveal his Son within me, so that I might evangelize him among the Gentiles, I did not next seek the consent of flesh and blood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood. |
And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.
Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Then he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the gentiles.’ ”
And every day in the temple and at home they did not cease to teach and proclaim Jesus as the Messiah.
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;
and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the gentiles for the sake of his name,
Now I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I celebrate my ministry
What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way.
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
This is the reason that I, Paul, am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you gentiles,
for our struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he ignored his kin and did not acknowledge his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.
by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath has overtaken them at last.
For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.
Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,