16That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
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For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-16)Here, I. He commends these Christians with the highest characters that could be. He began his epistle with their praises (Rom. 1:8), Your faith is spoken of throughout the world , thereby to make way for his discourse: and, because sometimes he had reproved them sharply, he now concludes with the like commendation, to qualify them, and to part friends. This he does like an orator. It was not a pie…
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