For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,
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.
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;
desiring to be teachers of the law without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?