Bible verses about "elders" | Haweis

⁴ So as they passed through the cities, they delivered to them for their observance the ordinances decreed by the apostles and presbyters that were at Jerusalem.

¹ MY brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.

¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection: ¹² for I permit not a woman to teach in public, or to assume authority over the man, but to abide in silence. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, Eve afterwards. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, by transgression fell. ¹⁵ But she shall be saved through childbearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness with sobriety.

⁵ For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed as shepherds the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

¹⁷ So he sent to Ephesus from Miletus, and called the presbyters of the church to attend him.

¹⁴ Is any man sick among you? let him send for the presbyters of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

⁶ if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct. ⁷ For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre; ⁸ but the stranger's host, the good man's friend, grave, just, holy, temperate; ⁹ firmly attached to the faithful word, according to the doctrine delivered, that he may be able to exhort with sound instruction and to confute the opposers.

¹⁷ Let the elders who preside properly be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who are laborious in preaching and teaching.

¹⁷ Let the elders who preside properly be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who are laborious in preaching and teaching. ¹⁸ For the Scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox while he treadeth out the corn." And again, "The labourer is worthy of his hire." ¹⁹ Against a presbyter receive not an accusation, except it be from two or three witnesses.

¹ IT is a true saying, If a man seeks the office of a bishop, he desireth a laudable employment. ² A bishop then must be irreprehensible, the husband of one wife, temperate, sagacious, respectable, hospitable, well qualified for teaching; ³ not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money; ⁴ presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour: ⁵ for if a man knoweth not how to order his own family, how shall he take proper care of the church of God? ⁶ Not a new convert, lest he be puffed up, and fall into the devil's crime. ⁷ He must also have a fair character from those who are without, that he may not fall into reproach, and into the snare of the devil. ⁸ The deacons also in like manner must be grave, not doubletongued, not addicting themselves to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let these also be first proved, and if found blameless, then let them enter on the deacon's office. ¹¹ Their wives in like manner must be grave women, not addicted to scandal, sober, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ordering well their children and their own families. ¹³ For they who discharge the office of a deacon with propriety, acquire to themselves a respectable station [in the church], and great boldness in the faith which is in Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: ¹⁵ but should I be delayed, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the pedestal of truth. ¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

²³ Then appointing them presbyters in every city, by prayer with fastings they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

¹ THE presbyters among you I exhort, who am a co-presbyter and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker of the glory which shall be revealed: ² feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind; ³ not as domineering over your allotted congregations, but as being examples of the flock. ⁴ And when the arch Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that will never fade away. ⁵ In like manner, ye who are younger persons, be in subjection to your elders: but all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed from head to foot with humility: for God sets himself in opposition to the proud, but he giveth grace to the lowly.