Romans 11:13
So I am speaking to you Gentiles (inasmuch as I am ‘apostle to the Gentiles’, I magnify my ministry),
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In The King James Version
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
In Context
14if somehow I can provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
Cross References
Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him: “Get moving, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to carry my name before nations and kings, also the children of Israel;
Acts 22:21And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
Romans 15:16that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, serving the Gospel of God as a priest so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, sanctified by Holy Spirit.
Galatians 2:2I went on the basis of a revelation and set before them [the main apostles] the Gospel that I proclaim among the nations/Gentiles. —Now I did this privately to those with influence, lest somehow I might run, or had run, in vain.
Ephesians 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
2 Timothy 1:11to this Gospel I was appointed as a proclaimer, an apostle and a teacher of nations.
Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33
The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →