Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.

Then after this, he said to his disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem again with Barnabas, taking Titus along too.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

To him also Abraham apportioned a tithe of everything. His name first means king of righteousness, then king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The second man replied, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.