Bible verses about "elders" | CLV

⁴ Now, as they went through the cities, they give over to them the decrees to maintain, which have been decided upon by the apostles and elders who are in Jerusalem."

¹ Not many should become teachers, my brethren, being aware that we shall be getting greater judgment."

¹¹ Let a woman be learning in quietness with all subjection. ¹² Now I am not permitting a woman to be teaching nor yet to be domineering over a man,, but to be in quietness" ¹³ (for Adam was first molded, thereafter Eve, ¹⁴ and Adam was not seduced, yet the woman, being deluded, has come to be in the transgression)." ¹⁵ Yet she shall be saved through the child bearing, if ever they should be remaining in faith and love and holiness with sanity."

⁵ On this behalf I left you in Crete, that you should amend what is lacking and constitute elders city by city, as I prescribe to you."

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to the entire flocklet, among which the holy spirit appointed you supervisors, to be shepherding the ecclesia of God, which He procures through the blood of His Own."

¹⁷ Now from Miletus, sending to Ephesus, he calls for the elders of the ecclesia."

¹⁴ Is anyone infirm among you? Let him call to him the elders of the ecclesia, and let them pray over him, rubbing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord."

⁶ If anyone is unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not under the accusation of profligacy or insubordinate -" ⁷ for the supervisor must be unimpeachable as an administrator of God, not given to self-gratification, not irritable, no toper, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;" ⁸ but hospitable, fond of that which is good, sane, just, benign, self-controlled;" ⁹ upholding the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able to entreat with sound teaching as well as to expose those who contradict."

¹⁷ Let elders who have presided ideally be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who are toiling in word and teaching,

¹⁷ Let elders who have presided ideally be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who are toiling in word and teaching, ¹⁸ for the scripture is saying: "A threshing ox you shall not be muzzling,and "Worthy is the worker of his wages." ¹⁹ Against an elder do not assent to an accusation outside and except before two or three witnesses.

¹ Faithful is the saying: "If anyone is craving the supervision, he is desiring an ideal work." ² The supervisor, then, must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, sober, sane, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach, ³ no toper, not quarrelsome, but lenient, pacific, not fond of money, ⁴ controlling his own household ideally, having his children in subjection with all gravity -" ⁵ now if anyone is not aware how to control his own household, how will he care for the ecclesia of God? -" ⁶ no novice, lest, being conceited, he should be falling into the judgment of the Adversary." ⁷ Yet he must have an ideal testimony also from those outside, that he should not be falling into the reproach and trap of the Adversary." ⁸ Servants, similarly, are to be grave, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not avaricious, ⁹ having the secret of the faith in a clear conscience. ¹⁰ Now let these also first be tested: thereafter let them be serving, being unimpeachable." ¹¹ The wives, similarly, are to be grave, not adversaries, sober, faithful in all things." ¹² Let servants be the husbands of one wife, controlling children and their own households ideally, ¹³ for those who serve ideally are procuring for themselves an ideal rank and much boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These things I am writing to you, though expecting to come to you more quickly, ¹⁵ yet, if I should be tardy, that you may be perceiving how one must behave in God's house, which is the ecclesia of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth." ¹⁶ And avowedly great is the secret of devoutness, which was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by messengers, heralded among the nations, believed in the world, taken up in glory."

²³ Now, selecting elders for them according to the ecclesia, praying with fastings, they committed them to the Lord in Whom they had believed."

¹ The elders, then, among you I am entreating (who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participant of the glory about to be revealed), ² Shepherd the flocklet of God among you, supervising, not of compulsion, but voluntarily, according to God; nor yet avariciously, but eagerly;" ³ nor yet as lording it over the allotments, but becoming models for the flocklet, ⁴ and, when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, you shall be requited with an unfading wreath of glory." ⁵ Likewise, younger men may be subject to the elder, yet all wear the servile apron of humility with one another, for God "is resisting the proud, yet is giving grace to the humble."