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1 Timothy 2:7

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I was appointed to be a messenger and an apostle to preach the good news. (I’m telling the truth; I’m not lying.) God appointed me to be a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.

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But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! I’ve chosen this man to do a special work for me. He will announce my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.

I was appointed to be a messenger, an apostle, and a teacher of the good news.

I don’t want any of you to think that I’m not concerned about the people of Israel. They’re my family, my own flesh and blood. (I’m not lying, I’m telling you the truth as one in Christ—my conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.)

to serve Christ Jesus among the Gentiles. I’m like a priest of the good news, and I want the Gentiles to be an offering that pleases God because it has been made holy by the Holy Spirit.

James, Peter, and John, who are respected as pillars in the church, recognized that God had given me this privilege. So they shook hands with Barnabas and me to welcome us as partners. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles while they went to the Jews.

As God is my witness, I’m telling you the truth.

to reveal his Son in my life so I could preach about him to the Gentiles, I didn’t consult any human being.

Let me talk now to you who are Gentiles. As the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in the work I do.

God didn’t spare the world’s ungodly people long ago. He brought the flood on them. But Noah preached about the right way to live, and God kept him safe along with seven other people.

So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus—may he be praised forever—knows that I’m not lying.

But how can they call on someone they haven’t believed in? How can they believe in someone they’ve never heard of? How can they hear about him unless someone preaches to them?

I preached first to the people in Damascus, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles. I told them to give up their sins and turn to God and to show they’d done this by the way they lived.

“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go, I’m sending you far away to the Gentiles.’ ”

When they arrived in Antioch, they gathered the church together and told everything that God had done through them. They shared how he had opened a way for the Gentiles to believe.

The Jews asked each other, “Where is this man planning to go, if we won’t be able to find him there? Will he go to where our people are living scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks there?

But even though we’re used to following the law, we still know that no one can be made right with God that way. Instead, a person needs to believe in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus to be made right with God. We’re not trying to do that by obeying the law, because no one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

I serve God with my whole heart as I preach the good news about his Son. And God is my witness that I remember you constantly in my prayers.

Aren’t I free? Aren’t I an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord? Aren’t you the result of my work for the Lord?




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