Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
And he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:
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