¹³ Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as ^(A)I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, “Go, for ^(A)he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name ^(B)before the Gentiles and ^(C)kings and the children of Israel.

^11 (A)for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, ^12 (B)which is why I suffer as I do. But ^(C)I am not ashamed, for ^(D)I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until ^(E)that day ^(F)what has been entrusted to me.^[a]

^7 (A)For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (^(B)I am telling the truth, I am not lying), ^(C)a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸ To me, ^(A)though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, ^(B)to preach to the Gentiles the ^(C)unsearchable ^(D)riches of Christ,

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw that I had been ^(A)entrusted with ^(B)the 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), ⁹ and when James and Cephas and John, ^(C)who seemed to be ^(D)pillars, perceived the ^(E)grace that was given to me, they ^(F)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

¹⁶ was pleased to reveal his Son to^[a] me, in order ^(A)that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;^[b]

¹⁶ to be ^(A)a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles ^(B)in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that ^(C)the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ In Christ Jesus, then, I have ^(D)reason to be proud of ^(E)my work for God. ¹⁸ For I will not venture to speak of anything except ^(F)what Christ has accomplished through me ^(G)to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, ^19 (H)by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that ^(I)from Jerusalem and all the way around ^(J)to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;

² I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those ^(A)who seemed influential) the gospel that ^(B)I proclaim among the Gentiles, ^(C)in order to make sure I was not running or had not ^(D)run in vain.