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Acts 20:18-35
When they arrived, he said to them,“ You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.“ And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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Romans 15:16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 7 17
Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.
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Acts 18:23
After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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Colossians 2:1
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those who have not met me face to face.
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Romans 16:4
who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
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Romans 1:14
I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
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Acts 15:40-41
but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
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Acts 20:2
After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,
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Romans 11:13
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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Acts 15:36
After some days Paul said to Barnabas,“ Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”