13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an ^qapostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a ^dnew covenant, ^enot of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but ^fthe Spirit gives life.

The Light of the Gospel

1 Therefore, having this ministry ^rby the mercy of God,¹ we do not ^slose heart.

23 Are they ^qservants of Christ? ^rI am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with ^sfar greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

8 (for he who ^zworked through Peter for his ^aapostolic ministry to the circumcised ^bworked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),

23 ^uif indeed you continue in the faith, ^vstable and ^wsteadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation¹ under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a ^xminister.