Luke 10:2

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Brothers, pray for us.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left as a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred fifty men.

The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

They went out, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.