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Acts 26:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles — to whom I send you,

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But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

and I was appointed to be its herald and apostle (I am not telling a lie, it is quite true), to teach the Gentiles faith and truth.

I tell you this, you Gentiles, that as an apostle to the Gentiles I lay great stress on my office,

my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

as a special favour, to send for him to Jerusalem, meaning to lay an ambush for him and murder him on the road.

for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city."

The brothers then sent off Paul at once on his way to the sea, while Silas and Timotheus remained where they were.

Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,

they went to appease them and after taking them out of prison begged them to leave the town.

But the Jews incited the devout women of high rank and the leading men in the town, who stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their territory.




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