One Gospel – Or Multiple Gospels – KJV Bible Study

Many folks claim that Paul had a different Gospel then the other Apostles.

Some folks even claim there’s 4 or 6 different Gospels.

According to that “method” – there’s about 20 different Gospels.

I’m sticking with ONE Gospel – many different names.
All the below info is from the KJV.

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The simple phrase “the gospel” – appears 54 times in 51 verses – that’s over half of all the uses of the word.

-Paul uses the simple phrase 37 times in Romans through Philemon.

“gospel of the kingdom” occurs 4 times in 4 verses in the KJV.

“gospel of God” occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the KJV.

“gospel of Christ” occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the KJV.

10 other “gospel of”

– gospel of Jesus Christ
– gospel of the grace of God
– gospel of his Son
– gospel of peace – 2 times
– gospel of the uncircumcision
– gospel of the circumcision
– gospel of your salvation
– gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
– gospel of the blessed God

18 various “_____ gospel” (words other than ‘the”)

– this gospel – 3 times
– my gospel – 3 times
– Christ’s gospel
– our gospel – 3 times
– glorious gospel – 2 times
– another gospel – 2 times
– other gospel – 2 times
– that gospel
– everlasting gospel

Below are all the verses from Paul’s letters that use the word ‘gospel’. Notice ALL the different phrases.

Many folks claim that since Paul said “my Gospel” – that he had a different Gospel.

YET Paul had several “phrases” for the Gospel.

The word “gospel” occurs 80 times in 74 verses in between Acts and Philemon in the KJV.

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Acts 8:25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

Acts 14:7 And there they preached the gospel.

Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

Acts 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

Acts 16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

Acts 20:24 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 of the grace of God.

Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

Romans 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the nope first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

Romans 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.

Romans 15:16 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.

Romans 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Romans 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:

Romans 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

1 Corinthians 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 Corinthians 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

2 Corinthians 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

2 Corinthians 8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;

2 Corinthians 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

2 Corinthians 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.

2 Corinthians 11:4 For 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 with him.

2 Corinthians 11:7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Galatians 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

Galatians 2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a nope, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Hebrews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Hebrews?

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Galatians 4:13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Ephesians 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Philippians 1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

Philippians 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

Philippians 1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

Philippians 1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Philippians 2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Philippians 4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

Colossians 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 2:2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

1 Thessalonians 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 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.

1 Thessalonians 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Thessalonians 2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

2 Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

Philemon 1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

 

The word “gospel” occurs 101 times in 95 verses in the KJV – all in the New Testament.

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The phrase “the gospel” occurs 83 times in 77 verses in the KJV – all in the New Testament.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=%22the+gospel%22&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1

The phrase “gospel of” occurs 32 times in 31 verses in the KJV.

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The phrase “the gospel of” occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the KJV.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=%22the+gospel+of%22&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1

 

Acts 14 is the first mention of Paul preaching a “Gospel”.

The verse says THE Gospel – not “his Gospel”.

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Acts 14

1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Hebrews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Hebrews and also of the Greeks believed.

2 But the unbelieving Hebrews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

3 Long 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.

4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Hebrews, and part with the apostles.

5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Hebrews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

6 They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

7 And there they preached the gospel.

The problem of Bible “study” is those doing the studying are in no capacity to Understand.

St. Paul writes to Timothy in 2nd Timothy 2:1-15 about who is fit to Preach-Teach-Minister. The keynote verses are 6 & 7:
6The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
7Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Paul is advising that any who are called to Minister etc, “Ought be Born-Again”. IE Ezekiel 36:26-27 Born-Again.

This ties to verse 15, the famous “Study Unto The Approval of God” which is aimed at those in ministry.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

So, what I’m saying is that until we’re Ezekiel 36:26-27 Born-Again, we have no Guidance or Witness from God The Holy Spirit, and no New Heart Of Father’s Flesh. Without Being so Born-Again, there is NO Understanding. Here is what God Says HE Will DO For HIS People: from Ezekiel ch 36

26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

So… the effort to Study and Understand, as practiced and sought by those unable to directly Answer Father’s Call…

How can anything but failure be the result? Failure and confusion…

Pretty plain in Matt 13 where The Apostles ask Jesus “Why do you always Teach Using Parables?” vs 10, right after HE Gave the parable of The Sower.

11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

What Jesus IS Saying here (hear?) is that those seeking understanding by any means other than their Heart, are NOT Whom HE IS Concerned With.

All the “study” in the world will NOT Enable your Understanding.

There’s more to this Witness in Matt 16:13-20 where Jesus Asks The Apostles “WHO do you say I Am?” Only Peter KNOWS: “Thou Art The Christ! Son of The Living God!” Jesus Says “Only MY Father could have Put That Knowledge Upon Your Heart” and Instructs them not to tell anyone HE IS The Christ…

Want more Witness? Matt 22:1-14 where Jesus Tells Us Father’s Purpose. The Basic Why HE Sent HIM To Redeem US and Enable Us To Answer HIS Call. It’s another parable… Concluding in vs 14 with: “For Many Were Called, But Few Are Chosen!”

The vs 14 Witness is that Few Will Come Unto The Father in surrender and submission, making their Leap of Faith and thereby Being Ezekiel 36 Born-Again…

Everything of Father and Jesus is a matter of Heart.
Do you KNOW WHO HE IS?
If so, That’s Because Father Chose YOU and Called YOU To Come Unto HIM and Be Born-Again.

The Good News is that Father-God Wants us to Abide With HIM Now and Forever, KNOWING Us Personally and Directly.

Everything is about your Trusting HIM With All You Are and Ever Will Be, and then Taking Action to Tell HIM So.

Unable to Take Action?
Then your Faith (not being ablle to manifest for God) without that work, is dead!

We are told to Seek God – and one of the BEST ways is to read scripture. Most of scripture is not difficult to understand.

I believe that Paul exhorts ALL to “study to show thyself approved”.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given
by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness:

The vast majority of pastors, priests and theologians don’t deliberately mislead / teach false doctrines.

But the fact remains that many of them don’t do the research required.