Galatians 1:16 Cross References

Galatians 1:16

16: Then he revealed his Son to me so that I could proclaim the Good News about Jesus to the Gentiles. When all this happened to me, I did not rush out to consult with anyone else;

Matthew 16:17

  1. Jesus replied, "You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being.

Ephesians 3:5

  1. God did not reveal it to previous generations, but now he has revealed it by the Holy Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.
  2. And this is the secret plan: The Gentiles have an equal share with the Jews in all the riches inherited by God's children. Both groups have believed the Good News, and both are part of the same body and enjoy together the promise of blessings through Christ Jesus.
  3. By God's special favor and mighty power, I have been given the wonderful privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.
  4. Just think! Though I did nothing to deserve it, and though I am the least deserving Christian there is, I was chosen for this special joy of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.
  5. I was chosen to explain to everyone this plan that God, the Creator of all things, had kept secret from the beginning.

Ephesians 6:12

  1. For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this world, and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms.

Luke 9:23

  1. Then he said to the crowd, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross daily, and follow me.
  2. If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life.
  3. And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose or forfeit your own soul in the process?

Deuteronomy 33:9

  1. The Levites obeyed your word and guarded your covenant. They were more loyal to you than to their parents, relatives, and children.

Romans 11:13

  1. I am saying all of this especially for you Gentiles. God has appointed me as the apostle to the Gentiles. I lay great stress on this,

Ephesians 1:17

  1. asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.
  2. I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the wonderful future he has promised to those he called. I want you to realize what a rich and glorious inheritance he has given to his people.

Matthew 26:41

  1. Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak!"

1 Corinthians 2:9

  1. That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him."
  2. But we know these things because God has revealed them to us by his Spirit, and his Spirit searches out everything and shows us even God's deep secrets.
  3. No one can know what anyone else is really thinking except that person alone, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit.
  4. And God has actually given us his Spirit (not the world's spirit) so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
  5. When we tell you this, we do not use words of human wisdom. We speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain spiritual truths.

2 Corinthians 4:6

  1. For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made us understand that this light is the brightness of the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

Acts 22:21

  1. "But the Lord said to me, 'Leave Jerusalem, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"

Luke 9:59

  1. He said to another person, "Come, be my disciple." The man agreed, but he said, "Lord, first let me return home and bury my father."
  2. Jesus replied, "Let those who are spiritually dead care for their own dead. Your duty is to go and preach the coming of the Kingdom of God."
  3. Another said, "Yes, Lord, I will follow you, but first let me say good-bye to my family."
  4. But Jesus told him, "Anyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God."

Romans 1:13

  1. I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see good results, just as I have done among other Gentiles.
  2. For I have a great sense of obligation to people in our culture and to people in other cultures, to the educated and uneducated alike.

Acts 9:15

  1. But the Lord said, "Go and do what I say. For Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.

Ephesians 3:1

  1. I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus because of my preaching to you Gentiles.

Romans 15:16

  1. a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News and offer you up as a fragrant sacrifice to God so that you might be pure and pleasing to him by the Holy Spirit.
  2. So it is right for me to be enthusiastic about all Christ Jesus has done through me in my service to God.
  3. I dare not boast of anything else. I have brought the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I lived before them.
  4. I have won them over by the miracles done through me as signs from God--all by the power of God's Spirit. In this way, I have fully presented the Good News of Christ all the way from Jerusalem clear over into Illyricum.

Galatians 1:11

  1. Dear brothers and sisters, I solemnly assure you that the Good News of salvation which I preach is not based on mere human reasoning or logic.
  2. For my message came by a direct revelation from Jesus Christ himself. No one else taught me.

Acts 26:17

  1. And I will protect you from both your own people and the Gentiles. Yes, I am going to send you to the Gentiles,
  2. to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people, who are set apart by faith in me.'
  3. "And so, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to that vision from heaven.
  4. I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that all must turn from their sins and turn to God--and prove they have changed by the good things they do.

2 Timothy 1:11

  1. And God chose me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this Good News.

Hebrews 2:14

  1. Because God's children are human beings--made of flesh and blood--Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the Devil, who had the power of death.

2 Corinthians 5:16

  1. So we have stopped evaluating others by what the world thinks about them. Once I mistakenly thought of Christ that way, as though he were merely a human being. How differently I think about him now!

1 Timothy 2:7

  1. And I have been chosen--this is the absolute truth--as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles about faith and truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

  1. by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

Galatians 2:6

  1. And the leaders of the church who were there had nothing to add to what I was preaching. (By the way, their reputation as great leaders made no difference to me, for God has no favorites.)
  2. They saw that God had given me the responsibility of preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, just as he had given Peter the responsibility of preaching to the Jews.
  3. For the same God who worked through Peter for the benefit of the Jews worked through me for the benefit of the Gentiles.
  4. In fact, James, Peter, and John, who were known as pillars of the church, recognized the gift God had given me, and they accepted Barnabas and me as their co-workers. They encouraged us to keep preaching to the Gentiles, while they continued their work with the Jews.

1 Corinthians 15:50

  1. What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These perishable bodies of ours are not able to live forever.

Colossians 1:25

  1. God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his message in all its fullness to you Gentiles.
  2. This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to his own holy people.
  3. For it has pleased God to tell his people that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. For this is the secret: Christ lives in you, and this is your assurance that you will share in his glory.

Galatians 2:1

  1. Then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas; and Titus came along, too.
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