Thematic Bible: Called to be an apostle
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James » An apostle. Son of zebedee and salome » Called to be an apostle
On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
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These are the names of the apostles (missionaries). First, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;
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They were Simon, whom he had also called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John;
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As he went farther on he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.
As he went a little farther on he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in their boat mending the nets. Straightway he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants and went after him.
Paul » Called to be an apostle
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.
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Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;
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But when God who had set me apart from my very birth, and had called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach his gospel among the Gentiles, without consulting a human being,
From Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for a gospel of God,
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
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Paul, and apostle of Jesus Christ by command of God our Saviour and Jesus Christ our Hope,
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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, sent forth to proclaim the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.
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It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
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To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;
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For I am the least of the apostles, I who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.
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Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.
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"Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. "'For before the face of all men you will be a witness for him of what you have seen and heard. "'And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.' read more.
"After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, "I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.' "'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you, "'and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.' "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"
"After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, "I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.' "'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you, "'and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.' "'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"
"'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you. "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? Even if I am not an apostle to others, to you at least I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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