The apostles of Christ quoted from each other's writing, confirming the divine inspiration of the texts. In 1 Timothy 5:18, the Apostle Paul says: "The laborer is worthy of his wages." This expression occurs only in the Gospel of Christ according to Luke (10:7), thereby confirming the fact that this Gospel record was recognized and in common use when Paul wrote his letter to Timothy. In James 2:8, we read: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself"; this is a quote from the Gospel of Christ according to Matthew (22:39). In 2 Peter 3:14-16 the Apostle Peter writes: Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless and account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation- as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in his epistles."
Here the Apostle Peter acknowledge the reliability of Paul's writings, as well as the wisdom with which he wrote them. And since God Almighty endowed the apostles with the power of the Holy Spirit to perform miracles, these men were able to differentiate between books that were inspired and those that were not. They quoted from one another's writings in the same way that they cited the words of the Old Testament prophets.
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