46 Bible Verses about Apostles, Function In Early Church

Therefore must there, of these men having come with us in all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and came out among us, Having begun from the immersion of John, unto the day which he was taken up from us, be one of these a witness with you of his rising up.

This Jesus God raised up, of which all we are witnesses.

And ye killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead; of whom we are witnesses.

And in great power the sent gave back testimony of the rising up of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Who was seen for many days to them having come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:

Simon Peter, servant and sent of Jesus Christ, to them having received by inheritance equally honoured faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,

So let a man reckon us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Paul, servant of God, and sent of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the acknowledgment of the truth according to devotion;

For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you.

And now I go to Jerusalem serving the holy ones.

For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.

I stripped other churches, having received pay, for your service.

The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed: Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will; Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock.

Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone;

And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues.

And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.

Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God, (Which he before promised by his prophets in the holy writings,) Concerning his Son born of the seed of David according to the flesh.read more.
Determined the Son of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the rising up of the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord: By whom we received grace and sending forth, to the obedience of faith in all nations for his name:

And they, having gone forth, proclaimed every where, the Lord performing together, and confirming the word by signs following. Amen.

By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ. And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

And when God was contented, having separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me, by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might announce him the good news in the nations; I consulted not with flesh and blood:

And they were persevering in the teaching of the sent, and in mutual participation, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming. He shall honour me: for he shall take of mine, and announce to you. All things which the Father has are mine: therefore said I, he shall take of mine, and announce to you.

And every day in the temple, and at the house, they ceased not teaching and announcing the good news, Jesus the Christ.

And the twelve having called the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not pleasing for us, having left the word of God, to serve tables.

If ye have heard of the distribution of the grace of God given to me for you: That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly, By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,)read more.
Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit: For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:

Therefore, brethren, stand, and hold firmly the doctrines which ye were taught, whether by the word, or by our epistle.

To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations.

Am I not sent? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my work in the Lord If to others I am not sent, but surely I am to you: for the seal of my sending are ye in the Lord.

Who then is Paul, and who Apollos, but servants by whom ye believed, and to each as the Lord gave? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God increased.

And the twelve having called the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not pleasing for us, having left the word of God, to serve tables. Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need. And we will persevere in prayer, and the service of the word.read more.
And the word pleased before all the multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: Whom they set before the sent: and having prayed, they put hands upon them.

To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations. By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day.

And put their hands upon the sent, and set them in the public keeping.

For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often. Of the Jews five times I received forty, except one. Thrice was I scourged with rods, once was I stoned, thrice suffered I shipwreck, I have made a night and day in the deep;read more.
In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of the family, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in solitude, in dangers in the sea, in dangers with false brethren; In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things outside, my distraction daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I am not inflamed

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

And having said this, he inspired, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:

But ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me also in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to utter.

By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

And the sent in Jerusalem having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John: Who, having gone down, prayed for them, that they receive the Holy Spirit (For not yet was it fallen upon any of them: only they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus.)read more.
Then put they hands upon them, and they received the Holy Spirit. And Simon having seen that by putting on of hands of the sent the Holy Spirit is given, he brought money to them,

And Paul having laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came upon them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.