Now I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I celebrate my ministry
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Then he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the gentiles.’ ”
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;
to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with any human,
I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.
Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ
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.