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Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian held the letters of Paul to be on par with the Hebrew scriptures as being divinely inspired, yet others rejected him.

Other books were held in high esteem but were gradually relegated to the status of New Testament apocrypha.

Justin Martyr, in the mid 2nd century, mentions " memoirs of the apostles " as being read on Sunday alongside the " writings of the prophets ".