Acts 26:16 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me.

¹⁷ Judas did enter our number, he did get his allotted share of this our ministry.

²⁵ to fill the place in this apostolic ministry which Judas left in order to go to his own place."

⁴ but we will continue to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word."

⁶ Get up and go into the city. There you will be told what you have to do." ⁷ His fellow-travellers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but they could not see anyone. ⁸ Saul got up from the ground, but though his eyes were open he could see nothing; so they took his hand and led him to Damascus. ⁹ For three days he remained sightless, he neither ate nor drank.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

¹ Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. ² As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." ³ Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and let them go. ⁴ Sent out thus by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop, ¹⁰ for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city."

²⁴ But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

¹⁹ and after saluting them Paul described in detail what God had done by means of his ministry among the Gentiles.

¹⁰ I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there·you shall be told about all you are destined to do.'

¹⁴ Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips. ¹⁵ For you are to be a witness for him before all men, a witness of what you have seen and heard.

¹⁷ When I returned to Jerusalem, it happened that while I was praying in the temple I fell into a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ 'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues, ²⁰ and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

¹¹ On the following night the Lord stood by Paul and said, "Courage! As you have testified to me at Jerusalem, so you must testify at Rome."

²³ For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve, stood before me, ²⁴ saying, 'Have no fear, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And God has granted you the lives of all your fellow-voyagers.'

⁵ through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

¹⁶ as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

¹ Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

¹⁸ It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation.

¹ There is nothing to be gained by this sort of thing, but as I am obliged to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. ² I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. In the body or out of the body? That I do not know: God knows. ³ I simply know that in the body or out of the body (God knows which) ⁴ this man was caught up to paradise and heard sacred secrets which no human lips can repeat. ⁵ Of an experience like that I am prepared to boast, but not of myself personally — not except as regards my weaknesses. ⁶ (If I did care to boast of other things, I would be no 'fool,' for I would have a true tale to tell; however, I abstain from that — I want no one to take me for more than he can see in me or make out from me.) ⁷ My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

¹² no man put it into my hands, no man taught me what it meant, I had it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

² (It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

⁷ Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power; ⁸ less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

⁷ You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;

²³ that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

²⁵ for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message —

² I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

¹² I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

⁶ Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

⁵ Whatever happens, be self-possessed, flinch from no suffering, do your work as an evangelist, and discharge all your duties as a minister.