Quotes About Message

When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more silent. Then Paul declared,

Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.”

So the centurion took him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner sent and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

And he wrote the following letter:

Claudius Lysias, To His Excellency, Governor Felix: Greetings.

After several days, Felix returned with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”

So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

Be advised, therefore, that Godís salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”

the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

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

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:

How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

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

in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me