Acts 14:23

They appointed elders in every church and committed them to the Lord with prayer and fasting. The apostles left behind ordered, well-led congregations entrusted to God.

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• Titus 1:5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
• Jas 5:14Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
• Acts 11:30Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
• 2 Tim 2:2And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• Acts 20:32And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
• 1 Tim 5:22Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.
• Acts 20:17And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
• Acts 13:1–3Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
• 1 Tim 5:17–19Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
• 1 Pet 5:1The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
• 3 Jn 1:1The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
• 1 Tim 5:1Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
• Acts 15:6And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
• 2 Jn 1:1The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
• Acts 15:4And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
• Acts 14:26And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
• 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• Acts 15:23And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
• 1 Th 3:12–13And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• Mark 3:14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
• Luke 23:46And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
• Acts 1:22Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

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