Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Receive
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Bible References
Receive
John 18:29
Pilate therefore went out unto them, and saith, What accusation bring ye against this man?
Acts 24:2
And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy much peace, and that by the providence evils are corrected for this nation,
Acts 25:16
To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
Titus 1:6
if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
Two
Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
Matthew 18:16
But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.
John 8:17
Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true.
2 Corinthians 13:1
This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word established.
Hebrews 10:28
A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:
General references
Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Numbers 35:30
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,
Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.