Jesus himself, in Gethsemane,
instructed his apostles to pray «lest they be put to the test,» echoing his own words in the Lord's Prayer.
Two thousand years ago Jesus
instructed apostles He must die and raise again on the the third day.
One can not hate religion but love Jesus because Jesus
instructed His apostles to continue propagating His message.
He clearly
instructed his Apostles that it was better for him to leave this world so he could then be present with all men and women who would receive him as the Spirit of Truth.
Some later writer — with a noticeably different style of writing — later added verses 16:9 - 20 about Jesus returning and
instructing the apostles to preach the gospels.
In Matthew 28:19 - 20, Jesus
instructs His apostles to «baptize... in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.»
Jesus
instructs the apostles to do the good work they were set out to do but do it without pay, because it was freely given.
In Matthew 28:19 - 20, Jesus
instructs His apostles to go and make disciples, and then says this: «baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.»
Not exact matches
«but rarely told them to avoid wearing nice jewelry as the
apostle instructs them just one sentence later in 1 Peter 3:3.»
In one of his letters to Timothy, the
apostle Paul
instructs his young apprentice on how to tackle the issues of money, possessions and generosity in his ministry to the...
This, I believe, is what the
apostle Paul meant when he
instructed Christians to be ready to give a defense for the hope --(not the certainty, not the doctrine, not the logic....
Even the
apostle Paul
instructs an escaped slave, Onesimus, to return to his master, they observed.
I believe that while the
apostle Paul
instructed some women not to teach, he encouraged others to prophesy, teach, and lead, and so we have to look at the epistles in their totality and in their context rather than lifting a few verses out to restrict women from preaching the gospel.
In one of his letters to Timothy, the
apostle Paul
instructs his young apprentice on how to tackle the issues of money, possessions and generosity in his ministry to the Christians in Ephesus.
The
apostles redistributed the wealth as they saw fit as the believers gave money for the cause of the new cult — as they felt
instructed to do by the greatest authority that they knew of — God.
While Mary may have never been called an
apostle, there was an
apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the
apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «
instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).
C. F. Evans notes: «As in this Gospel particularly the body of disciples begins to appear as a church under the discipline of the
apostles, and the material is arranged for church use, so now the resurrection commission is in terms of church order — to make disciples, to baptize and to
instruct.»
Pastors told wives to submit to their husbands as the
apostle Peter
instructed in 1 Peter 3:1, but rarely told them to avoid wearing nice jewelry as the
apostle instructs them just one sentence later in 1 Peter 3:3.
Right after the
apostle Paul encouraged Ephesian wives to submit to their husbands as they would to Christ, and Ephesian husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, he
instructed Ephesian slaves to «obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ» (Ephesians 6:5).
The bible does
instruct the sheep to support the pastor (not just
apostles like someone commented)-- 1 Tim 2:17, Gal 6:6.
The
apostle Paul
instructs us in 1 Corinthians 6:19 to honor our bodies because they house the Holy Spirit.