These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,

He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

and when they recognized the grace I had been given, then the so-called 'pillars' of the church, James and Cephas and John, gave myself and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship. Our sphere was to be the Gentiles, theirs the circumcised.

Upon

In virtue of my commission from God, I laid the foundation of the house like an expert master-builder. It remains for another to build on this foundation. Whoever he is, let him be careful how he builds.

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

And the wall of the City has twelve foundation-stones, bearing the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

I will

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.

My

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

praising God and looked on with favour by all the people. Meantime the Lord added the saved daily to their number.

(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Also, he is the head of the Body, that is, of the church, in virtue of his primacy as the first to be born from the dead ??that gives him pre-eminence over all.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

Shall not

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me;

Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,

Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.

General references

The word of God spread and multiplied.

The foundation is laid, namely Jesus Christ, and no one can lay any other.