Bible Verses about โapollosโ
The Bible contains 42 verses about apollos across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFrom infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.โ
โHe began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.โ
โNow I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."โ
โIs Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?โ
โFor it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.โ
โbut God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;โ
โI planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.โ
โFor the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.โ
โand God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:โ
โthat no flesh should boast before God.โ
โFor you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;โ
โFor Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.โ
โI thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,โ
โNow a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.โ
โ(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)โ
โso that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.โ
โIt happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.โ
โGod is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.โ
โto the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:โ
โNow these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.โ
โBecause the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.โ
โBut of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:โ
โso that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;โ
โSend Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.โ
โI always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;โ
โbut we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,โ
โFor when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?โ
โWho then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?โ
โFor seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.โ
โthat, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."โ
โFor it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."โ
โWhere is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?โ
โFor Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,โ
โbut to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.โ
โthat in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;โ
โwhether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,โ
โeven as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:โ
โGrace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.โ
โNow concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.โ
โPaul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,โ
โwho will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.โ
