Greeting

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

A Pattern of Self-Denial

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.