Romans 15:16

For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel ...

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,

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.