Verse 25

To take up the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

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  • John 6:70-71 : 70 Jesus answered them, 'Did I not choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.' 71 He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For Judas, one of the Twelve, was going to betray Him.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 Through Him, we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of His name among all the nations,
  • 1 Cor 9:2 : 2 If I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  • Gal 2:8 : 8 (For He who worked through Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also worked through me for mine to the Gentiles)—
  • John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them, I protected them and guarded them by Your name, the name You gave Me. None of them has been lost except the son of destruction, so that Scripture might be fulfilled.
  • Acts 1:16-21 : 16 “Brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who served as a guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 He was one of our number and shared in this ministry. 18 (With the reward he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; and falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.) 19 Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their own language, Akeldama, which means 'Field of Blood.' 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be desolate; let no one dwell in it,' and 'Let another take his position.' 21 Therefore, it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
  • Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would have been better for him if he had not been born."
  • 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to the LORD. He did not keep the word of the LORD and even sought guidance from a medium to inquire of it. 14 He did not seek guidance from the LORD, so the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David, son of Jesse.
  • Ps 109:7 : 7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer become sin.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
  • Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned. Feeling remorse, he returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. 4 He said, 'I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.' But they replied, 'What is that to us? You take care of it.' 5 Then, throwing the silver pieces into the temple, he left. He went and hanged himself.
  • John 13:27 : 27 After the piece of bread, Satan entered him. So Jesus told him, 'What you’re about to do, do quickly.'
  • 2 Pet 2:3-6 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment, 5 and if He did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, along with seven others when He brought the flood on the ungodly world, 6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly,
  • Jude 1:6-7 : 6 And the angels who did not stay within their proper domain but abandoned their dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under darkness for the judgment on the great day. 7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.