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Gal. 2:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

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Acts 1:8• ⁸But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:8)

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Acts 2:14‑41• ¹⁴But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
¹⁵For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
¹⁶But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
¹⁷And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
¹⁸And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
¹⁹And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
²⁰The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
²¹And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
²²Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
²³Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
²⁴Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
²⁵For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
²⁶Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
²⁷Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
²⁸Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
²⁹Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
³⁰Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
³¹He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
³²This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
³³Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
³⁴For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
³⁵Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
³⁶Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
³⁷Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
³⁹For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
⁴⁰And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
⁴¹Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (Acts 2:14‑41)

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Acts 3:12‑26• ¹²And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
¹³The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
¹⁴But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
¹⁵And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
¹⁶And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
¹⁷And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
¹⁸But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
¹⁹Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
²⁰And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
²¹Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
²²For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
²³And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
²⁴Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
²⁵Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
²⁶Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. (Acts 3:12‑26)

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Acts 4:4• ⁴Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. (Acts 4:4)

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Acts 5:12‑16• ¹²And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
¹³And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.
¹⁴And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
¹⁵Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
¹⁶There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. (Acts 5:12‑16)

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Acts 8:17• ¹⁷Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. (Acts 8:17)

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Gal. 3:5• ⁵He 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? (Gal. 3:5)

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Acts 9:15• ¹⁵But 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: (Acts 9:15)

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Acts 13:2‑11• ²As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
³And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
⁴So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
⁵And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
⁶And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus:
⁷Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
⁸But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
⁹Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
¹⁰And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
¹¹And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. (Acts 13:2‑11)

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Acts 14:3‑11• ³Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
⁴But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
⁵And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
⁶They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
⁷And there they preached the gospel.
⁸And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
⁹The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
¹⁰Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
¹¹And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. (Acts 14:3‑11)

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Acts 15:12• ¹²Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. (Acts 15:12)

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Acts 19:11‑12,26• ¹¹And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
¹²So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
²⁶Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: (Acts 19:11‑12,26)

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Acts 21:19• ¹⁹And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. (Acts 21:19)

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Acts 22:21• ²¹And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. (Acts 22:21)

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Acts 26:17‑18• ¹⁷Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
¹⁸To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. (Acts 26:17‑18)

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1 Cor. 1:5‑7• ⁵That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
⁶Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
⁷So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: (1 Cor. 1:5‑7)

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1 Cor. 9:2• ²If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. (1 Cor. 9:2)

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1 Cor. 15:10• ¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)

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2 Cor. 11:4‑5• ⁴For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear {/kn{kn 30669}}with him.
⁵For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. (2 Cor. 11:4‑5)

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Col. 1:29• ²⁹Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. (Col. 1:29)

• Moreover, the whole passage refutes the false teaching of apostolic succession and that the apostle Peter is the earthly head of the church. Personally, Peter recognized that the mission to the Gentiles was not his service. (“Galatians 2” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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(for he that wrought in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

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(for he that wrought in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision, wrought in me also toward the nations),