²⁵ to take the place in ^(A)this ministry and ^(B)apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

² If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are ^(A)the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

⁵ through whom ^(A)we have received grace and ^(B)apostleship ^(C)to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name ^(D)among all the nations,

^12 (A)While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^(B)guarded them, and ^(C)not one of them has been lost except ^(D)the son of destruction, ^(E)that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, ^(A)“Did I not choose you, ^(B)the twelve? And yet one of you is ^(C)a devil.” ⁷¹ He spoke of Judas ^(D)the son of Simon Iscariot, for ^(E)he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

⁸ (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),

¹⁶ “Brothers, ^(A)the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, ^(B)who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ For ^(C)he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in ^(D)this ministry.” ¹⁸ (Now this man ^(E)acquired a field with ^(F)the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong^[a] he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. ¹⁹ And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called ^(G)in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) ²⁰ “For it is written in the Book of Psalms,

and

²¹ So one of the men who have accompanied us during ^(J)all the time that the Lord Jesus ^(K)went in and out among us,

⁶ And ^(A)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— ⁷ just as ^(B)Sodom and Gomorrah and ^(C)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ^(D)pursued unnatural desire,^[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

¹³ So Saul died ^(A)for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also ^(B)consulted a medium, seeking guidance. ¹⁴ He ^(C)did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord put him to death and ^(D)turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.