Ephesians 4:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers,

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  • Jer 3:15 : 15 And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.
  • 1 Cor 12:28-29 : 28 And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues; 29 `are' all apostles? `are' all prophets? `are' all teachers? `are' all powers?
  • Eph 2:20 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone',
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,
  • Eph 3:5 : 5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --
  • Eph 4:8 : 8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --
  • Rom 10:14-15 : 14 How then shall they call upon `him' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching? 15 and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'
  • 2 Chr 15:3 : 3 and many days `are' to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
  • Acts 21:8 : 8 and on the morrow Paul and his company having gone forth, we came to Cesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist -- who is of the seven -- we remained with him,
  • Acts 13:1 : 1 And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also -- Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother -- and Saul;
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
  • Rom 12:7 : 7 or ministration -- `In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- `In the teaching!'
  • Heb 5:12 : 12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,
  • Rev 21:14 : 14 and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
  • 1 Pet 5:1-3 : 1 Elders who `are' among you, I exhort, who `am' a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, 2 feed the flock of God that `is' among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, 3 neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,
  • Jude 1:17 : 17 and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

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    12unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

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    27and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

    28And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

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    7and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

    8wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --

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    5so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

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    11to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

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    8for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

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    14and he appointed twelve, that they may be with him, and that he may send them forth to preach,

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    14so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

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    12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

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    5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

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    15for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

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    10According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',