On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

The servant

If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve, stood before me,

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

Preserved

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

I am to be in the world no longer, but they are to be in the world; I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

The Lord will rescue me from every assault of evil, he will bring me safe to his own realm in heaven. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

And called

Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.