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• Deuteronomy 1:13

  Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

• Deuteronomy 1:15

  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

• Acts 11:29

  As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

• Acts 11:30

  which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

• Acts 14:23

  When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

• Acts 15:1

  Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

• Acts 15:2

  Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

• Acts 15:3

  They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

• Acts 15:4

  When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

• Acts 15:5

  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 15:6

  The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

• Acts 15:7

  When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

• Acts 15:8

  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

• Acts 15:9

  He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

• Acts 15:10

  Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

• Acts 15:11

  But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

• Acts 15:12

  All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

• Acts 15:13

  After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.

• Acts 15:15

  This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

• Acts 15:17

  That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.

• Acts 15:18

  All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.’

• Acts 15:19

  “Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Acts 15:21

  For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

• Acts 15:22

  Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

• Acts 15:23

  They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

• Acts 15:24

  Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

• Acts 15:25

  it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

• Acts 15:26

  men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Acts 15:27

  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.

• Acts 15:28

  For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

• Acts 15:30

  So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.

• Acts 15:31

  When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.

• Acts 15:32

  Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.

• Acts 15:33

  After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

• Acts 15:34
• Acts 15:35

  But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

• Acts 16:4

  As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

• Acts 16:5

  So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

• Acts 20:17

  From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

• Acts 20:28

  Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

• Acts 20:29

  For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

• Acts 20:30

  Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

• Acts 20:31

  Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

• Acts 20:32

  Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• Acts 21:18

  The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

• 1 Timothy 4:14

  Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

• 1 Timothy 5:17

  Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

• 1 Timothy 5:18

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

• 1 Timothy 5:19

  Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

• Titus 1:5

  I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

• Titus 1:6

  if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

• Titus 1:7

  For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

• Titus 1:8

  but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

• Titus 1:9

  holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

• Hebrews 11:2

  For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

• James 5:14

  Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

• James 5:15

  and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

• 1 Peter 5:1

  Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

• 1 Peter 5:2

  Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

• 1 Peter 5:3

  neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

• 1 Peter 5:4

  When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

• 1 Peter 5:5

  Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

• 2 John 1:1

  The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

• 3 John 1:1

  The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

• Revelation 4:4

  Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

• Revelation 4:10

  the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

• Revelation 5:5

  One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

• Revelation 5:6

  I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

• Revelation 5:8

  Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

• Revelation 5:11

  I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

• Revelation 5:14

  The four living creatures said, “Amen!” The elders fell down and worshiped.

• Revelation 7:11

  All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God,

• Revelation 7:13

  One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?”

• Revelation 11:16

  The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

• Revelation 14:3

  They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

• Revelation 19:4

  The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”