103 Bible Verses about Elders In The Church
Want to know what the Bible says about Elders In The Church? Here are 103 Bible verses about Elders In The Church from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Titus 1:6-7 NIV
6 An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. 7 Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.
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Acts 14:21-23 NIV
21 They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, 22 strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. 23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
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1 Corinthians 12:28 NIV
And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.
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Acts 20:28-30 NIV
28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. 29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
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1 Timothy 3:15 NIV
if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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Proverbs 23:22 NIV
Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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1 Timothy 5:9 NIV
No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,
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1 Corinthians 9:14 NIV
In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
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1 Timothy 3:11 NIV
In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
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Acts 1:26 NIV
Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.
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