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 then went out unto them and said, "What accusation bring ye against this man?"
Acts 24:2
When Paul was called forth; Tertullus began to accuse him saying, "Seeing that we live in great quietness by the means of thee and that many good things are done unto this nation through thy providence:
Acts 25:16
To whom I answered, 'It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man that he should perish, before that he which is accused, have the accusers before him, and have license to answer for himself, concerning the crime laid against him.'
Titus 1:6
If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
Two
Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death, die: but at the mouth of one witness he shall not die.
Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness shall not rise against a man in any manner trespass or sin, whatsoever sin a man sinneth: But at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall all matters be tried.
Matthew 18:16
But if he hear thee not, then take yet with thee one or two, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, all things may be established.
John 8:17
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
2 Corinthians 13:1
Now come I the third time unto you: "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall everything stand."
Hebrews 10:28
He that despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses.
General references
Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on both their shoulders and went backward, and covered their father's secrets, but their faces were backward, so that they saw not their father's nakedness.
Numbers 35:30
Whosoever slayeth, shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not answer against one person to put him to death.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:
Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death, die: but at the mouth of one witness he shall not die.