Ephesians 4:11

¹⁵I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

²⁸God 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. ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

²⁰being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

⁵But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

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.

²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

¹⁴How 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? ¹⁵And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

⁸Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”

⁷or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

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,