Ephesians 4:11

The ascended Christ gives the church leaders: apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherd-teachers. These gifted people are themselves Christ's gift to his people.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 3:15I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
• 1 Cor 12:28–29God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
• Eph 2:20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
• Rom 10:14–15How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
• Eph 4:8Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
• Eph 3:5which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
• 2 Chr 15:3Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
• 1 Pet 5:1–3Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
• Rom 12:7or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
• Heb 5:12For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
• Rev 18:20“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
• Acts 21:8On the next day, we, who were Paul’s companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
• Acts 13:1Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
• Jude 1:17But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rev 21:14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

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