45 Bible Verses about Apostles, Function In Early Church

It is necessary therefore that one of the men who have gone with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John till the day on which he was taken up from us, should be made with us a witness of his resurrection.

This Jesus has God raised up, whose witnesses we all are.

but killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead, whose witnesses we are.

And the apostles delivered the testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great favor was towards them all.

and he appeared many days to those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed;

SIMEON Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh,

Let a man so regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often;

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,

for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God; and we also are weak in him, but live with him by the power of God in you.

But now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints.

For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

I robbed other churches taking wages to serve you;

The elders among you I exhort, who am a co-elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed; feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind, not as having a lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone,

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

PAUL, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God,??2 which he promised by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures,??3 concerning his Son born of the posterity of David as to the flesh, declared to be the Son of God in power as to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead,??esus Christ our Lord,??5 through whom we have received grace and an apostleship for the obedience of the faith in all nations in behalf of his name,

And they went abroad and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the accompanying miracles.

by the power of miracles and prodigies, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

For Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the good news, not with a wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ should be without effect.

But when God who gave me being and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the gentiles, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

and they attended constantly to the teaching and companionship of the apostles, the breaking of bread and the prayers.

but when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will lead you in all the truth; for he will not speak of himself, but he will speak whatever he shall hear, and tell you things to come. He shall glorify me, because he shall receive from me and tell you. All things that the Father has, are mine; on this account I said, He shall receive of me and tell you.

and every day in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not teaching and preaching the good news of Christ Jesus.

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God given to me for you, that by revelation the mystery was made known to me,??s I wrote before in a few words, by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,read more.
that the gentiles are co-heirs and of the same body and joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Therefore, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our epistle;

of which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations;

AM I not a freeman? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, I certainly am to you; for you are a seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused [the seed] to grow;

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables. Look out therefore, brothers, from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Holy Spirit, and of wisdom, whom we may set over this business; but we will attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word.read more.
And the proposition pleased all the multitude, and they elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus, and Nicanor and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch, and set them before the Apostles; and they having prayed imposed hands on them.

of which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations; for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep my trust to that day.

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison.

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often; five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;read more.
often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?

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

And having said this he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

And the apostles at Jerusalem hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit; for it had not yet fallen on any of them, only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.read more.
Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. And Simon seeing that the Holy Spirit was given by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, offered them money,

and Paul putting his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.