And he said to them, Every scribe therefore that is instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder who casts out of his treasury things new and old.

Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.

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.

of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power.

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God given me for you, to complete the word of God,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

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

Not

And the uncircumcision by nature which keeps the law shall judge you who with the written law and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.

but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing.

For

But if the ministry of death engraved in a writing on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses on account of the brightness of his face, which passed away,

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,

For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.

But the

The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.

THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Giveth life

For as the Father raises the dead, and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before God in whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls things which do not exist as existing.??18 who against hope believed in hope that he should become a father of many nations according to the saying shall your posterity be.

And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,