8 Bible Verses about Apostles, Identfication
Most Relevant Verses
If I am not an apostle to other people, surely I am one to you, for you are the evidence of my apostolic authority from the Lord.
For if someone comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or should you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you are all too willing to listen. I do not think I'm inferior in any way to those "super-apostles."
I have become a fool. You forced me to be one. Really, I should have been commended by you, for I am not in any way inferior to your "super-apostles," even if I am nothing.
Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? You are our letter, written in our hearts and known and read by everyone. You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
The signs of an apostle were performed among you with utmost patience signs, wonders, and powerful actions.
Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.
Now many signs and wonders were being performed by the apostles among the people, who were gathered together in Solomon's Colonnade.
by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of God's Spirit, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of the Messiah from Jerusalem as far as Illyricum.