1 Corinthians 9:1

¹⁷Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

¹⁹For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

¹¹The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

⁷to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

³As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

⁶I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

¹⁵But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace, ¹⁶to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,^[+] called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

¹¹For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ,^[+] according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, ²in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began; ³but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,