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.
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TSK · Galatians 2:7
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The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.
For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.
and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.
For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.