²⁵ For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.

²⁹ To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me ^(A)mightily.

Marks of the Ministry

6 We then, as ^(A)workers together with Him also ^(B)plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹⁰ But ^(A)by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, ^(B)yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things ^(A)which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, ^(B)to make the Gentiles obedient—

¹⁹ When he had greeted them, ^(A)he told in detail those things which God had done among the Gentiles ^(B)through his ministry.

⁷ And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: ^(A)“Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

⁴ And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them.

²⁷ Now when they had come and gathered the church together, ^(A)they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had ^(B)opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

^34 (A)But they understood none of these things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things which were spoken.