Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and ...  Read More

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers.  (Ephesians 4:11) 4 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 6 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. 7 For unclean spirits, cr...  Read More

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers. (Ephesians 4:11)  19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows in...  Read More

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers.  (Ephesians 4:11) 5 Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, 6 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. (Romans 1:5-6) 22 This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you. 23 But n...  Read More

 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high, he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”  9 (In saying, “he ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all t...  Read More

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth … 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth...  Read More