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Deuteronomy 1:13Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;Deuteronomy 1:15‘And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes.Acts 11:29and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,Acts 11:30which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.Acts 14:23and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.Acts 15:1And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren—‘If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;’Acts 15:2there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,Acts 15:3they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.Acts 15:4And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;Acts 15:5and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying—‘It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.’Acts 15:6And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,Acts 15:7and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, ‘Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;Acts 15:8and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,Acts 15:9and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;Acts 15:10now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?Acts 15:11but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.’Acts 15:12And all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them;Acts 15:13and after they are silent, James answered, saying, ‘Men, brethren, hearken to me;Acts 15:14Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,Acts 15:15and to this agree the words of the prophets, as it hath been written:Acts 15:16After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright—Acts 15:17that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.Acts 15:18‘Known from the ages to God are all His works;Acts 15:19wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,Acts 15:20but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;Acts 15:21for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him—in the synagogues every sabbath being read.’Acts 15:22Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, chosen men out of themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas—Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren—Acts 15:23having written through their hand thus: ‘The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who are of the nations, greeting;Acts 15:24seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,Acts 15:25it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul—Acts 15:26men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—Acts 15:27we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.Acts 15:28‘For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:Acts 15:29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!’Acts 15:30They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,Acts 15:31and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;Acts 15:32Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm,Acts 15:33and having passed some time, they were let go with peace from the brethren unto the apostles;Acts 15:34and it seemed good to Silas to remain there still.Acts 15:35And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news—with many others also—the word of the Lord;Acts 16:4And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who are in Jerusalem,Acts 16:5then, indeed, were the assemblies established in the faith, and were abounding in number every day;Acts 20:17And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,Acts 20:28‘Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,Acts 20:29for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,Acts 20:30and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.Acts 20:31‘Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;Acts 20:32and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.Acts 21:18and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came,1 Timothy 4:14be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;1 Timothy 5:17The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,1 Timothy 5:18for the Writing saith, ‘An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,’ and ‘Worthy is the workman of his reward.’1 Timothy 5:19Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.Titus 1:5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;Titus 1:6if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate—Titus 1:7for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;Titus 1:8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,Titus 1:9holding—according to the teaching—to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;Hebrews 11:2for in this were the elders testified of;James 5:14is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,
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