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1 Timothy 2:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle  (I am telling the truth;  I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles  in faith and truth.

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But the Lord said to him, ‘Go, for this man is my chosen instrument   to take my name to Gentiles,   kings, and Israelites.


For this gospel I was appointed  a herald, apostle, and teacher,


I speak the truth in Christ   #– #I am not lying; my conscience testifies to me through the Holy Spirit   #– #


to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles,  serving as a priest of the gospel of God.  God’s purpose is that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering,  sanctified by the Holy Spirit.


When James,  Cephas,  , and John   #– #those recognised as pillars   #– #acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.


I declare in the sight of God: I am not lying in what I write to you.


to reveal his Son  in me, so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone.


Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,  I magnify my ministry,


and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,  a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,  , when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;


Consequently, those who have faith are blessed with Abraham,  who had faith.


The God and Father  of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed for ever, knows I am not lying.


How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him?  And how can they hear without a preacher?


Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.


‘He said to me, “Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.”  ’


After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them  and that he had opened the door  of faith to the Gentiles.


Then the Jews  said to one another, ‘Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed  , among the Greeks  and teach the Greeks, does he?


‘Look,’ says the Teacher, ‘I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,


I, the Teacher,  have been  king over Israel in Jerusalem.


and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law  but by faith in Jesus Christ,  even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ  and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will  be justified.


God is my witness,  whom I serve with my spirit  in telling the good news about his Son #– #that I constantly mention you,


Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?





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