Romans 11:13

13Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as aI am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

2 Corinthians 11:5

5Indeed, I consider that bI am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:11-12

Concern for the Corinthian Church

11 cI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was dnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, eeven though I am nothing. 12 fThe signs of a true apostle were performed among you gwith utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

Galatians 1:1

Greeting

1Paul, an hapostleinot from men nor through man, but jthrough Jesus Christ and God the Father, kwho raised him from the dead

Galatians 1:15-17

15But when he lwho had set me apart mbefore I was born,
Greek  set me apart from my mother’s womb
and who ocalled me by his grace,
16was pleased to reveal his Son to
Greek in
me, in order qthat I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Greek with flesh and blood
17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

Galatians 2:7-8

7On the contrary, when they saw that I had been sentrusted with tthe gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 8(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),

1 Timothy 2:7

7 uFor this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle ( vI am telling the truth, I am not lying), wa teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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