Quotes About Discipleship

And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?

So we all agreed to choose men to send to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

But Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, along with many others, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord.

And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.

So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.

But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.

So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him in and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

When Apollos resolved to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.

On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

We went on ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, where we were to take Paul aboard. He had arranged this because he was going there on foot.

Sailing on from there, we arrived the next day opposite Chios. The day after that we arrived at Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus.

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.

What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?

I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,

Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesusí sake.