to serve Christ Jesus among the Gentiles. I have the duty of a priest to preach God’s good news. Then the Gentiles will become an offering that pleases God. The Holy Spirit will make the offering holy.

使我为外邦人作基督耶稣的仆役，作神福音的祭司，叫所献上的外邦人，因着圣灵成为圣洁，可蒙悦纳。

使我为外邦人作基督耶稣的仆役，作上帝福音的祭司，使所献上的外邦人因着圣灵成为圣洁，可蒙悦纳。

使我为外邦人作基督耶稣的仆役，作神福音的祭司，使所献上的外邦人因着圣灵成为圣洁，可蒙悦纳。

在外族人中做基督耶稣的仆人和上帝福音的祭司，好叫外族人借着圣灵得以圣洁，可以作上帝喜悦的祭物。

为外族人作了基督耶稣的仆役，作了神福音的祭司，使所献上的外族人得蒙悦纳，靠着圣灵成为圣洁。

这恩典使我为外邦人成了基督耶稣的仆役、做了神福音的祭司，好让外邦人藉着圣灵被分别为圣，成为蒙悦纳的供物。

使我為外邦人作基督耶穌的僕役，作神福音的祭司，叫所獻上的外邦人，因着聖靈成為聖潔，可蒙悅納。

使我為外邦人作基督耶穌的僕役，作上帝福音的祭司，使所獻上的外邦人因着聖靈成為聖潔，可蒙悅納。

使我為外邦人作基督耶穌的僕役，作神福音的祭司，使所獻上的外邦人因着聖靈成為聖潔，可蒙悅納。

在外族人中作基督耶穌的僕人和上帝福音的祭司，好叫外族人藉著聖靈得以聖潔，可以作上帝喜悅的祭物。

為外族人作了基督耶穌的僕役，作了神福音的祭司，使所獻上的外族人得蒙悅納，靠著聖靈成為聖潔。

使我向外國人做基督耶穌的僕役，做上帝福音的祭司，使外國人之受供獻成為可蒙悅納、在聖靈裏分別為聖的。

這恩典使我為外邦人成了基督耶穌的僕役、做了神福音的祭司，好讓外邦人藉著聖靈被分別為聖，成為蒙悅納的供物。

令我為基督耶穌之役於異邦、恭事上帝福音、俾所獻之異邦人、由聖神而成聖者、見納於上帝、

令我為耶穌基督執事、訓異邦人、如祭司傳上帝福音、俾異邦人得托聖神為聖、余獻之而見納於上帝、

得為耶穌基督之役、訓異邦人、傳天主福音、如祭司盡職、以異邦人賴聖神成聖者、獻之如禮物而蒙悅納、

得在異邦人中充任基督耶穌之役、不得不勉盡司鐸之職、以弘宣基督之福音、務使異邦人受聖神之感化、而超凡入聖、俾我獻之於天主之前、而蒙其悅納。

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I am a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the gospel of God. God’s purpose is that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, ministering as a priest the gospel of God, so that my offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of God’s good news. My purpose is that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

But my life might even be poured out like a drink offering on your sacrifices. I’m talking about the way you serve because you believe. Even so, I am glad. I am joyful with all of you.

I am talking to you who are not Jews. I am the apostle to the Gentiles. So I take pride in the work I do for God and others.

I, Paul, am writing this letter. I serve Christ Jesus. I have been appointed to be an apostle. God set me apart to tell others his good news.

Don’t forget to do good. Don’t forget to share with others. God is pleased with those kinds of offerings.

Brothers and sisters, God has shown you his mercy. So I am asking you to offer up your bodies to him while you are still alive. Your bodies are a holy sacrifice that is pleasing to God. When you offer your bodies to God, you are worshiping him in the right way.Don’t live the way this world lives. Let your way of thinking be completely changed. Then you will be able to test what God wants for you. And you will agree that what he wants is right. His plan is good and pleasing and perfect.

“ I will give them a sign. I will send to the nations some of those who are left alive. I will send some of them to the people of Tarshish, Libya and Lydia, who are famous for using bows. I will send others to Tubal and Greece. And I will send still others to islands far away. The people who live there have not heard about my fame. They have not seen my glory. But when I act, those I send will tell the nations about my glory.And they will bring back all the people of Israel from all those nations. They will bring them to my holy mountain in Jerusalem. My people will ride on horses, mules and camels. They will come in chariots and wagons,” says the Lord.“ Those messengers will bring my people as an offering to me. They will bring them to my temple, just as the Israelites bring their grain offerings in bowls that are‘ clean.’

But the Lord said to Ananias,“ Go! I have chosen this man to work for me. He will announce my name to the Gentiles and to their kings. He will also announce my name to the people of Israel.

I was appointed to announce the good news. I was appointed to be an apostle and a teacher.

I will speak about what Christ has done through me. I won’t try to speak about anything else. He has been leading the Gentiles to obey God. He has been doing this by what I have said and done.

In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. We don’t know what we should pray for. But the Spirit himself prays for us. He prays through groans too deep for words.God, who looks into our hearts, knows the mind of the Spirit. And the Spirit prays for God’s people just as God wants him to pray.

So we are Christ’s official messengers. It is as if God were making his appeal through us. Here is what Christ wants us to beg you to do. Come back to God!

True teaching agrees with the good news about the glory of the blessed God. He trusted me with that good news.

But my life means nothing to me. My only goal is to finish the race. I want to complete the work the Lord Jesus has given me. He wants me to tell others about the good news of God’s grace.

Don’t you know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? The Spirit is in you, and you have received the Spirit from God. You do not belong to yourselves.

You also are like living stones. As you come to Christ, you are being built into a house for worship. There you will be holy priests. You will offer spiritual sacrifices. God will accept them because of what Jesus Christ has done.

I have received my full pay and have more than enough. I have everything I need. That’s because Epaphroditus brought me the gifts you sent. They are a sweet- smelling offering. They are a gift that God accepts. He is pleased with it.

After all, what is Apollos? And what is Paul? We are only people who serve. We helped you to believe. The Lord has given each of us our own work to do.

It was made known to the prophets that they were not serving themselves. Instead, they were serving you when they spoke about the things that you have now heard. Those who have preached the good news to you have told you these things. They have done it with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

I was appointed to be a messenger and an apostle to preach the good news. I am telling the truth. I’m not lying. God appointed me to be a true and faithful teacher of the Gentiles.

Through Christ we both come to the Father by the power of one Holy Spirit.

You know what happened earlier in the city of Philippi. We suffered, and people treated us very badly there. But God gave us the boldness to tell you his good news. We preached to you even when people strongly opposed us.

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit spoke.“ Set apart Barnabas and Saul for me,” he said.“ I have appointed them to do special work.”

I will save you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to themto open their eyes. I want you to turn them from darkness to light. I want you to turn them from Satan’s power to God. I want their sins to be forgiven. They will be forgiven when they believe in me. They will have their place among God’s people.’

And hope will never bring us shame. That’s because God’s love has been poured into our hearts. This happened through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

I know that when I come to you, I will come with the full blessing of Christ.

And because you belong to him, you too are being built together. You are being made into a house where God lives through his Spirit.I, Paul, am a prisoner because of Christ Jesus. I am in prison because of my work among you who are Gentiles.

So here is how you should think of us. We serve Christ. We are trusted with the mysteries God has shown us.

They did more than we expected. First they gave themselves to the Lord. Then they gave themselves to us because that was what God wanted.

“ Then the Lord said to me,‘ Go. I will send you far away to people who are not Jews.’ ”

In fact, it was just the opposite. They recognized the task I had been trusted with. It was the task of preaching the good news to the Gentiles. My task was like Peter’s task. He had been trusted with the task of preaching to the Jews.God was working in Peter as an apostle to the Jews. God was also working in me as an apostle to the Gentiles.

Brothers and sisters, I am sure you remember how hard we worked. We labored night and day while we preached to you God’s good news. We didn’t want to cause you any expense.

So I ask you again, how does God give you his Spirit? How does he work miracles among you? Is it by doing what the law says? Or is it by believing what you have heard?

Are they serving Christ? I am serving him even more. I’m out of my mind to talk like this! I have worked much harder. I have been in prison more often. I have suffered terrible beatings. Again and again I almost died.

“ Now I trust God to take care of you. I commit you to the message about his grace. It can build you up. Then you will share in what God plans to give all his people.

God is the God who gives peace. May he make you holy through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept free from blame. May you be without blame from now until our Lord Jesus Christ comes.