Quotes About Mission

The next day they returned to the barracks and let the horsemen go on with him.

When the horsemen arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and presented Paul to him.

In this pursuit I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.

We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone elseís foundation.

That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you,

I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.

So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you.

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.