Matthew 13:52
52And he said to them, “Therefore every ascribe bwho has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who cbrings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”Romans 1:5
5through whom dwe have received grace and eapostleship fto bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name gamong all the nations,1 Corinthians 3:5
5What then is Apollos? What is Paul? hServants through whom you believed, ias the Lord assigned to each.1 Corinthians 3:10
10 jAccording to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a kfoundation, and lsomeone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.1 Corinthians 12:28
28And mGod has appointed in the church first napostles, second oprophets, third teachers, then pmiracles, then qgifts of healing, rhelping, sadministrating, and tvarious kinds of tongues.2 Corinthians 5:18-20
18All this is from God, uwho through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us vthe ministry of reconciliation; 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling ▼▼Or God was in Christ, reconciling
the world to himself, xnot counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us ythe message of reconciliation. 20Therefore, zwe are ambassadors for Christ, aaGod making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. Ephesians 3:7
7 abOf this gospel I was made aca minister according to the gift of adGod’s grace, which was given me aeby the working of his power.Ephesians 4:11-12
11And afhe gave the agapostles, the prophets, the ahevangelists, the aishepherds ▼▼Or pastors
and teachers, ▼▼Or the shepherd-teachers
12 alto equip the saints for the work of ministry, for ambuilding up anthe body of Christ,
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