'Messengers' in the Bible

He wrote [a decree] in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback, riding on the royal [mail] relay horses, the offspring of the racing mares.

Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

He sent His burning anger against them:fury, indignation, and calamity—a band of deadly messengers.

For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways,

Bless Jehovah, ye His messengers, Mighty in power -- doing His word, To hearken to the voice of His Word.

and making the winds His messengers,flames of fire His servants.

Praise ye Him, all His messengers, Praise ye Him, all His hosts.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

"Be silent, you inhabitants of the coast, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers crossed over the sea,

For though his princes are at Zoanand his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

Listen! Their warriors cry loudly in the streets;the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

When he heard it, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah: "Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: "Don't let your God on whom you depend deceive you when he says, "Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria."

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

By your messengers you have insulted the LORD, and you have said, "With my many chariots I have climbed the heights of mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines; I reached its remotest heights, the most verdant of its forests.

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent [messengers with] letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

For messengers are coming, heralding disaster, from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim.

And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

But he rebelled against the king of Babylon by sending his messengers to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Or will the one who did this escape? Will he break the covenant, but still be delivered?'"

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

"In addition, they sent messengers for men to come from afar. When they arrived, you bathed yourself for them, painted your eyes, adorned yourself with jewelry,

In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

and saith to him, 'If Son thou art of God -- cast thyself down, for it hath been written, that, His messengers He shall charge concerning thee, and on hands they shall bear thee up, that thou mayest not dash on a stone thy foot.'

Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives): first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

When the messengers had taken their leave, Jesus proceeded to say to the multitude concerning John, "What did you go out into the Desert to gaze at? A reed waving in the wind?

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.

the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,

so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,

'For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

Beware! -- ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;

'And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

dost thou think that I am not able now to call upon my Father, and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of messengers?

and he was there in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by the Adversary, and he was with the beasts, and the messengers were ministering to him.

And He appointed twelve [disciples], so that they would be with Him [for instruction] and so that He could send them out to preach [the gospel as apostles—that is, as His special messengers, personally chosen representatives],

for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.'

for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.

And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers who are in the heaven, not even the Son -- except the Father.

And it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said unto one another, 'We may go over indeed unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that hath come to pass, that the Lord did make known to us.'

for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

When day came, He called His disciples and selected twelve of them, whom He also named apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives):

When the messengers who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.

Then He answered the messengers, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. Blind men receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are purified, deaf persons hear, the dead are raised to life, the poor have the Good News proclaimed to them.

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

'For whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, of this one shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he may come in his glory, and the Father's, and the holy messengers';

Now when the time drew near for Him to be received up again into Heaven, He proceeded with fixed purpose towards Jerusalem, and sent messengers before Him.

And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

And I say to you, Every one -- whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,

and he who hath denied me before men, shall be denied before the messengers of God,

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own all the things you have prepared?’

If not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends messengers and sues for peace.

'So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;

for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

and he saith to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'

You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,

until the day when He ascended to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given instruction to the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen.

And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart [with remorse and anxiety], and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what are we to do?”

A sense of awe was felt by everyone, and many wonders and signs (attesting miracles) were taking place through the apostles.

and placing the money down at the apostles’ feet. Then it was distributed to each as anyone had need.

At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders (attesting miracles) were continually taking place among the people. And by common consent they all met together [at the temple] in [the covered porch called] Solomon’s portico.

They arrested the apostles and put them in a public jail.

who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it.'

Saul wholeheartedly approved of Stephen’s death.And on that day a great and relentless persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem; and the believers were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that [the people of] Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Now Peter was still perplexed and completely at a loss as to what his vision could mean when the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon’s house, arrived at the gate.

so send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, to come to you. He is a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker, by the sea.'

Now the apostles and the believers who were throughout Judea heard [with astonishment] that the Gentiles also had received and accepted the word of God [the message concerning salvation through Christ].

Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

Paul and Barnabas disagreed greatly and debated with them, so it was determined that Paul and Barnabas and some of the others from their group would go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders [and confer with them] concerning this issue.

it has been decided by us, having met together, to select men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch; and after assembling the congregation, they delivered the letter.

From Miletus he sent messengers to Ephesus to ask the elders of the church to meet with him.

King Agrippa, do you believe the [writings of the] Prophets [their messages and words]? I know that you do.”

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,

so they too have now become disobedient so that they too may one day receive mercy because of the mercy shown to you.

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last -- as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

So God has appointed and placed in the church [for His own use]: first apostles [chosen by Christ], second prophets [those who foretell the future, those who speak a new message from God to the people], third teachers, then those who work miracles, then those with the gifts of healings, the helpers, the administrators, and speakers in various kinds of [unknown] tongues.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

Then He was seen by James, then by all the apostles,

Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

For such men are counterfeit apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.