Ephesians 3:7
New Living Translation
7 By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.
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Ephesians 3:20
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20 Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
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Ephesians 1:19
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19 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power
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Ephesians 3:2
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2 assuming, by the way, that you know God gave me the special responsibility of extending his grace to you Gentiles.
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1 Thessalonians 2:13
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13 Therefore, we never stop thanking God that when you received his message from us, you didn’t think of our words as mere human ideas. You accepted what we said as the very word of God—which, of course, it is. And this word continues to work in you who believe.
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Colossians 1:23-25
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23 But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
Paul’s Work for the Church
24 I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church. 25 God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.
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2 Corinthians 3:6
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6 He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.
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1 Corinthians 15:10
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10 But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.
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Hebrews 13:21
New Living Translation
21 may he equip you with all you need
for doing his will.
May he produce in you,[a]
through the power of Jesus Christ,
every good thing that is pleasing to him.
All glory to him forever and ever! Amen.
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- 13:21 Some manuscripts read in us.
1 Timothy 1:14-15
New Living Translation
14 Oh, how generous and gracious our Lord was! He filled me with the faith and love that come from Christ Jesus.
15 This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.
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Colossians 1:29
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29 That’s why I work and struggle so hard, depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me.
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1 Corinthians 3:5
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5 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.
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Romans 1:5
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5 Through Christ, God has given us the privilege[a] and authority as apostles to tell Gentiles everywhere what God has done for them, so that they will believe and obey him, bringing glory to his name.
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- 1:5 Or the grace.
Isaiah 43:13
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13 “From eternity to eternity I am God.
No one can snatch anyone out of my hand.
No one can undo what I have done.”
Ephesians 4:16
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16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.
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Ephesians 3:8
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8 Though I am the least deserving of all God’s people, he graciously gave me the privilege of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.
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Galatians 2:8
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8 For the same God who worked through Peter as the apostle to the Jews also worked through me as the apostle to the Gentiles.
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2 Corinthians 10:4-5
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4 [a]We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.
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- 10:4 English translations divide verses 4 and 5 in various ways.
2 Corinthians 4:1
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Treasure in Fragile Clay Jars
4 Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way,[a] we never give up.
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- 4:1 Or ministry.
Romans 15:18-19
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18 Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them. 19 They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit.[a] In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ from Jerusalem all the way to Illyricum.[b]
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Romans 15:16
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16 I am a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit.
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