¹⁸ For I will not be so bold as to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to win obedience from the gentiles, by word and deed,

¹² The whole assembly kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul as they told of all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the gentiles.^(A)

⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the gentiles for the sake of his name,^(A)

¹⁹ After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the gentiles through his ministry.^(A)

⁸ (for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the gentiles),

¹⁷ comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.^(A)

²⁶ but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all the gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith^(A)—

⁹ But when the archangel Michael disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander^[a] against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”^(A)

¹⁸ Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.^(A)