Galatians 1:16 Cross References - Lamsa

¹⁶ To reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately disclose it to any human being:

¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father in heaven.

⁴¹ Awake and pray, that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is ready, but the body is weak.

²³ Then he said in the presence of everyone, He who wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross every day and follow me. ²⁴ For he who wishes to save his life, shall lose it; but he who loses his life for my sake, he shall save it. ²⁵ For how can a man be benefited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul, or even weakens it?

⁵⁹ He said to another, Follow me; but he said to him, My Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father. ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, Let the dead bury their own dead; but you go and preach the kingdom of God. ⁶¹ Another one said to him, I will follow you, my Lord; but permit me first to entrust my household to some one, and then come. ⁶² Jesus said to him, No man who puts his hand on the plough handle, and looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

¹⁵ But the LORD said to him, Arise and go: he is the agent whom I have chosen for myself to carry my name to the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:

²¹ Then he said to me, Depart: for I will send you afar to preach to the Gentiles.

¹⁷ And I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the other people to whom I send you; ¹⁸ To open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, and receive forgiveness of sins, and a portion with the saints who are of the faith in me. ¹⁹ Whereupon, O King A-gripÆpa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision: ²⁰ But I preached first to them of Damascus and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the villages of Judµa, and then to the Gentiles, that they might repent and turn to God and do works worthy of repentance.

¹³ Now I want you to know, my brethren, that often I have wanted to come to you, but I have been prevented thus far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles, ¹⁴ Greeks and Barbarians, the wise and the unwise; for it is my duty to preach to everybody.

¹³ It is to you Gentiles that I speak, inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, and perhaps magnify my ministry:

¹⁶ That I may become a minister of Jesus Christ among the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable and sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I am proud therefore to glory in Jesus Christ before God. ¹⁸ For I can scarcely speak of anything which Christ has not wrought by me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹ Through mighty miracles and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem I went round about as far as Il-lyrÆi-cum, and I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

⁹ But as it is written, The eye has not seen, and the ear has not heard, and the heart of man has not conceived the things which God has prepared for those who love him. ¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For what man knows the mind of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so, no man knows the mind of God, except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, that we may understand the gifts that are given to us by God. ¹³ For the things which we discuss are not dependent on the knowledge of words and manÆs wisdom, but on the teaching of the Spirit; thus explaining spiritual things to the spiritually minded.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, my brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

⁶ For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts, so that we may be enlightened with the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Christ.

¹⁶ And now from henceforth we do not know any one in the body: even though once we had known Christ in the body, we no longer know him now.

¹¹ But I want you to know, my brethren, the gospel that I preached was not from men. ¹² For I did not receive it nor learn it from man, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹ THEN, fourteen years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

⁶ Now those who were considered to be important (what they are makes no difference to me, for God does not discriminate among men), even these very persons did not contribute additional knowledge to me. ⁷ But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was entrusted to me, as the gospel of the circumcision was entrusted to Peter, ⁸ (For he who made Cephas vigorous in the apostleship of the circumcision, has also made me mighty in the apostleship of the Gentiles:) ⁹ And when they knew that the grace had been given to me, then James, Cephas, and John, who were considered to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we might labor among the Gentiles, and they, among the people of circumcision.

¹⁷ So that the God of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: ¹⁸ And so that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the glorious riches of his inheritance in the saints;

¹ FOR this cause I, Paul, am a prisoner of Jesus Christ for the sake of you Gentiles.

⁵ Which in ages past was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; ⁶ That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs and partakers of his body and of the promise which is given through him by the gospel, ⁷ Of that very gospel, I have been a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of his power. ⁸ Even to me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: ⁹ And that I may enlighten all men that they may see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which for ages had been hidden from the world by God who created all things: ¹⁰ To the intent that through the church the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the angels and powers which are in heaven,

¹² For your conflict is not only with flesh and blood, but also with the angels, and with powers, with the rulers of this world of darkness, and with the evil spirits under the heavens.

²⁵ For which I became a minister, according to the dispensation of God which has been given to me for you, fully to preach the word of God everywhere; ²⁶ Even the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now is revealed to his saints: ²⁷ To whom God wanted to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ among you, the hope of our glory;

¹⁶ Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, adding this to their sins always; but the wrath of God is upon them to the uttermost.

⁷ For that testimony I was appointed a preacher and an apostle; I tell the truth and I lie not; and I became the teacher of the Gentiles in a true faith.

¹¹ To which I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹⁴ Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also likewise partook of the same; and by his death he has destroyed him who had the power of death, that is, the devil.