Acts 26:16

Good News Translation (US Version)

But get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant. You are to tell others what you have seen of me today and what I will show you in the future.

Cross References

Daniel 10:11

The angel said to me, “Daniel, God loves you. Stand up and listen carefully to what I am going to say. I have been sent to you.” When he had said this, I stood up, still trembling.

Ezekiel 2:1

saying, “Mortal man, stand up. I want to talk to you.”

1 Timothy 1:12

I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength for my work. I thank him for considering me worthy and appointing me to serve him,

Galatians 1:12

I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.

Romans 15:16

of being a servant of Christ Jesus to work for the Gentiles. I serve like a priest in preaching the Good News from God, in order that the Gentiles may be an offering acceptable to God, dedicated to him by the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 1:25

And I have been made a servant of the church by God, who gave me this task to perform for your good. It is the task of fully proclaiming his message,

Colossians 1:23

You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant—this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.

Galatians 2:2

I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.

Acts 23:11

That night the Lord stood by Paul and said, “Don't be afraid! You have given your witness for me here in Jerusalem, and you must also do the same in Rome.”

2 Timothy 4:5

But you must keep control of yourself in all circumstances; endure suffering, do the work of a preacher of the Good News, and perform your whole duty as a servant of God.

1 Timothy 4:6

If you give these instructions to the believers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, as you feed yourself spiritually on the words of faith and of the true teaching which you have followed.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

while we sent Timothy, our brother who works with us for God in preaching the Good News about Christ. We sent him to strengthen you and help your faith,

Colossians 1:7

You learned of God's grace from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is Christ's faithful worker on our behalf.

2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also.

2 Corinthians 4:1

God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.

Romans 1:5

Through him God gave me the privilege of being an apostle for the sake of Christ, in order to lead people of all nations to believe and obey.

Acts 22:10

I asked, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ and the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything that God has determined for you to do.’

Acts 21:19

Paul greeted them and gave a complete report of everything that God had done among the Gentiles through his work.

Acts 20:24

But I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me; I only want to complete my mission and finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do, which is to declare the Good News about the grace of God.

Acts 6:4

We ourselves, then, will give our full time to prayer and the work of preaching.”

Acts 1:25

to serve as an apostle in the place of Judas, who left to go to the place where he belongs.”

Acts 1:17

Judas was a member of our group, for he had been chosen to have a part in our work.” (

Luke 1:2

They wrote what we have been told by those who saw these things from the beginning and who proclaimed the message.

Acts 26:15

‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. And the Lord answered, ‘I am Jesus, whom you persecute.

Ephesians 3:3

God revealed his secret plan and made it known to me. (I have written briefly about this,