8 Bible Verses about Apostles, Identfication
Most Relevant Verses
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.
If indeed some one is coming to preach another Jesus, whom I did not preach, or you are receiving a Spirit other than you once received, or another gospel which you did not accept before, you would do well to bear with me. For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.
I am become a fool??ou have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.
Am I beginning again to "recommend" myself? Or do I need, as some do, letters of commendation either to you or from you? You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men. Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.
In truth the signs of the true apostle were wrought among you in all patience by signs and marvels and powers.
But they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the message by the miracles which followed.
Many signs and wonders continued to be wrought among the people by the hands of the apostles, and by common consent they all would meet in Solomon's Porch,
through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum.