1 Timothy 2:7

"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."

"I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,"

"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."

"Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not."

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

"And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision."

"To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:"