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.

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 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.

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.

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 I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy.

I am saying all this especially for you Gentiles. God has appointed me as the apostle to the Gentiles. I stress this,

This letter is from Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News.

And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God.

And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice— the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

I will perform a sign among them. And I will send those who survive to be messengers to the nations— to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians( who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. There they will declare my glory to the nations.They will bring the remnant of your people back from every nation. They will bring them to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord. They will ride on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the Lord.

But the Lord said,“ Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.

And God chose me to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of this Good News.

Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them.

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.

So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead,“ Come back to God!”

that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.

But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus— the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,

And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.

At the moment I have all I need— and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God.

After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.

They were told that their messages were not for themselves, but for you. And now this Good News has been announced to you by those who preached in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. It is all so wonderful that even the angels are eagerly watching these things happen.

And I have been chosen as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles this message about faith and truth. I’m not exaggerating— just telling the truth.

Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.

You know how badly we had been treated at Philippi just before we came to you and how much we suffered there. Yet our God gave us the courage to declare his Good News to you boldly, in spite of great opposition.

One day as these men were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,“ Appoint Barnabas and Saul for the special work to which I have called them.”

And I will rescue you from both your own people and the Gentiles. Yes, I am sending you to the Gentilesto open their eyes, so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God’s people, who are set apart by faith in me.’

And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

And I am sure that when I come, Christ will richly bless our time together.

Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.When I think of all this, I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the benefit of you Gentiles...

So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.

They even did more than we had hoped, for their first action was to give themselves to the Lord and to us, just as God wanted them to do.

“ But the Lord said to me,‘ Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!’”

Instead, they saw that God had given me the responsibility of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as he had given Peter the responsibility of preaching to the Jews.For the same God who worked through Peter as the apostle to the Jews also worked through me as the apostle to the Gentiles.

Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you.

I ask you again, does God give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you because you obey the law? Of course not! It is because you believe the message you heard about Christ.

Are they servants of Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again.

“ And now I entrust you to God and the message of his grace that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself.

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.