Matthew 10:20
20For it won't be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through ▼▼Or in
you.2Sam 23:2; Acts 4:8; 6:10; 2Tim 4:17 Romans 15:18-19
18For I am bold enough to tell you only about what Christ has accomplished through me in the bringing of Gentiles to obedience. By my words and actions,Acts 21:19; Rom 1:5; 16:26; Gal 2:8 19by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of God's Spirit, ▼▼Other mss. read of the Holy Spirit
I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem as far as Illyricum.Acts 19:11; 2Cor 12:12 2 Corinthians 3:5
5By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,John 15:5; 1Cor 15:10; 2Cor 2:16; Phil 2:132 Corinthians 11:23
23Are they Christ's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.Acts 9:16; 20:23; 21:11; 1Cor 15:10, 30-32; 2Cor 1:9-10; 4:112 Corinthians 12:11
11Concern for the CorinthiansI have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your “super-apostles,” even if I am nothing.1Cor 3:7; 15:8-9; 2Cor 11:1, 5, 16-17; Gal 2:6-8; Eph 3:8Galatians 2:8
8For the one who worked through Peter by making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me by sending me to the Gentiles.Acts 9:15; 13:2; 22:21; 26:17-18; 1Cor 15:10; Gal 1:16; 3:5; Col 1:29Ephesians 2:7-8
7so that in the coming ages he might display the limitless riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.Titus 3:4 8For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of GodMatt 16:17; John 6:44, 65; Rom 3:24; 4:16; Eph 1:19; 2:5; Phil 1:29; 2Tim 1:9Ephesians 3:7
7I have become a servant of this gospel ▼▼Lit. of it
according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.Rom 1:5; Eph 1:19; Col 1:20, 23, 25 Philippians 2:13
13For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.2Cor 3:5; Heb 13:21
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