Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

19Now, therefore, you are no longer visitors and new arrivals. Instead, you are citizens among the saints in the household of God, 20having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and of the Prophets, with Jesus Christ himself as the preeminent cornerstone. 21In him, all that has been built is framed together, rising up into a holy temple in the Lord. 22In him, you also have been built together into a habitation of God in the Spirit.

2The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.

3Day proclaims the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge.

4There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard.

5Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

12And it happened that, in those days, he went out to a mountain to pray. And he was in the prayer of God throughout the night. 13And when daylight had arrived, he called his disciples. And he chose twelve out of them (whom he also named Apostles): 14Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15Matthew and Thomas, James of Alphaeus, and Simon who is called the Zealot, 16and Jude of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was a traitor.