²⁵ to take the place^[a] in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

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

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

¹² While I was with them, I protected them in your name that^[a] you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,^[b] so that the scripture might be fulfilled.^(A)

⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”^{(A) 71} He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot,^[a] for he, though one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

⁸ (for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the gentiles),

¹⁶ “Brothers and sisters,^[a] the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus,^{(A) 17} for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.”^{(B) 18} (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.^{(C) 19} This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Hakeldama, 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 all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

⁶ And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.^{(A) 7} Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,^[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.^(B)

¹³ So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord; moreover, he had consulted a medium, seeking guidance,^{(A) 14} and did not seek guidance from the Lord. Therefore the Lord^[a] put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.^(B)