a[ch. 7:35; Prov. 8:12, 22, 23, 30; Matt. 11:19; 1 Cor. 1:24, 30; Col. 2:3]
bFor ver. 49-51, [Matt. 23:34-36]
cSee Acts 13:1; 1 Cor. 12:28
dSee Matt. 21:35
e1 Thess. 2:15 (Gk.)
fch. 17:18; See ch. 3:17
gch. 13:20; See Acts 1:2
hver. 19
iActs 14:14; 2 Cor. 12:12; 1 Thess. 2:6; [2 Cor. 10:7; Rev. 2:2]
jch. 15:8; Acts 9:3, 17; 18:9; 22:14, 18; 23:11
kSee ch. 3:6
l2 Cor. 12:11; Eph. 3:7, 8; 1 Tim. 1:13-16
mSee Acts 8:3
n[1 Cor. 12:5, 6]
oSee 1 Cor. 12:28
pActs 21:8; 2 Tim. 4:5
qJer. 3:15; [Acts 20:28]
t[2 John 1; 3 John 1]
uSee Luke 24:48

Luke 11:49

49Therefore also athe Wisdom of God said, b‘I will send them cprophets and apostles, dsome of whom they will ekill and persecute,’

John 20:21

21Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As fthe Father has sent me, geven so I am sending you.”

1 Corinthians 9:1

Paul Surrenders His Rights

1 hAm I not free? iAm I not an apostle? jHave I not seen Jesus our Lord? kAre not you my workmanship in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 15:9

9For lI am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because mI persecuted the church of God.

Galatians 2:8

8(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),

Ephesians 3:5

5which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

Ephesians 4:11

11And nhe gave the oapostles, the prophets, the pevangelists, the qshepherds ▼
▼Or pastors
 and teachers, ▼
▼Or  the shepherd-teachers

1 Peter 5:1

Shepherd the Flock of God

1So I exhort the elders among you, tas a fellow elder and ua witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
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