TSK · Romans 1:5

“There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

But the Lord said to him,“Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.