Galatians 1:16 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me so that I might proclaim Him among the nations/Gentiles, I did not start by consulting with flesh and blood,

¹⁷ And in answer Jesus said to him: “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in the heavens.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation. The spirit on its part is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

²³ Then He said to everyone: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁴ Because whoever desires to ‘save’ his life will lose it, but whoever ‘loses’ his life for my sake, he will save it. ²⁵ Further, what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, yet wastes or forfeits his very self?

⁵⁹ Then He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “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 proclaim the Kingdom of God”. ⁶¹ And another also said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house”. ⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to ‘the plow’ and looks back is suitable for the Kingdom of God”.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel;

²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you: ¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’ ¹⁹ Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision ²⁰ —first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance’.

¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am a debtor both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to wise and to foolish.

¹³ So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),

¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ So in Christ Jesus I do have a boast in things pertaining to God; ¹⁸ because I do not presume to speak of anything except those things that Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient —by word and deed, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of God’s Spirit, so that I have fully proclaimed the Gospel of the Christ from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

⁹ However, as it is written: “Things no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and no heart of man has imagined, such things has God prepared for those who love Him.” ¹⁰ But to us God has revealed them by His Spirit; because the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹ Now who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God; ¹³ which things we also expound, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.

⁶ because the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness is He who shined in our hearts to give the light that comes from the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ So then, from now on we regard no one from a fleshly perspective—even if we have ‘known’ Christ in this way, we do so no longer —

¹¹ Now I want you to know, brothers, that the Gospel preached by me is not according to man; ¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ.

¹ Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, taking Titus along as well.

⁶ Now from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows favoritism to no man)—those with influence contributed nothing to me, ⁷ but on the contrary, upon seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, just as was Peter for the circumcised ⁸ (for He who was at work with Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised was also at work with me for that to the uncircumcised), ⁹ and upon perceiving the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, while they to the Jews.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the real knowledge of Himself, ¹⁸ the eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know \up6 1)\up0 what is the hope of His\up6 [F]\up0 calling, and \up6 2)\up0 what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

¹ For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

⁵ which in different generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: ⁶ that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, of the same body, and fellow partakers of His promise in the Christ through the Gospel, ⁷ of which I became a servant according to the gift of God’s grace, the gift given to me according to the outworking of His power. ⁸ To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, ⁹ and to enlighten all as to the program of the secret that from the beginning of the ages has been hidden by the God who created all things through Jesus Christ; ¹⁰ to the intent that now, through the Church, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms,

¹² Because, our wrestling match is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the malignant spirits in the heavenly realms.

²⁵ of which I became a servant according to the stewardship from God that was given to me towards you, to complete the Word of God, ²⁶ the mystery that has been hidden from past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His saints; ²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory;

¹⁶ trying to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved—so as to fill up the measure of their sins. They have received the full impact of the Wrath).

⁷ to which ransom I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying—a teacher of nations in faith and truth.

¹¹ to this Gospel I was appointed as a proclaimer, an apostle and a teacher of nations.

¹⁴ Since, then, the children have flesh and blood as their share, He\up6 [S]\up0 Himself likewise partook of the same, in order that through His death He might abolish the one who had the power of death—that is, the devil—