THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you…: — 1 Corinthians 11:23 KJV
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us]; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. — Ephesians 2:13-22 KJV
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. — Revelation 21:14 KJV
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: — 2 Peter 3:2 KJV
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; — Jude 1:17 KJV
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: — Revelation 2:2 KJV
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. — 2 Corinthians 12:11 KJV
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. — 1 Corinthians 15:9 KJV