⁵ Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:

⁷ And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

¹⁰ But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

³ But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

¹⁵ But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:

²⁵ To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.

¹¹ For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.

¹⁴ A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

⁹ And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

¹¹ Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.

¹² I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

² If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

³ How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,

⁴ By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;

⁵ Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

⁶ Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

⁷ Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

⁹ And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

¹² So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

¹⁴ Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

²⁹ Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

¹⁵ But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

¹⁶ To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

¹⁹ By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

² If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.

⁵ Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

⁶ Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.

⁴ (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);

⁵ Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

⁶ Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

¹⁵ But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

¹⁶ To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,

⁸ (Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

⁹ When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;

⁶ To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

¹⁶ From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace.