16 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.
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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.
17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
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Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God.
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
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I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—