Acts 14:23

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Summary

And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

Elders

And had

Acts 13:1

They commended

1 Peter 5:10

Bible References

Elders

which also they did; and they sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

When they arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles and elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

Do not rebuke an elderly man, but entreat him as a father; the younger men, as brothers:

Is any one among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil, in the name of the Lord.

The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

THE elder to the elect lady, and to her children, whom I love in the truth: and not I only, but also all who know the truth;

elder to the beloved Gains, whom I love in the truth.

And had

Now there were certain prophets and teachers in the church that was at Antioch; Barnabas, and Simeon, who is called Niger, and Lucius of Gyrene, and Manaen, who was brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

They commended

thence they sailed to Antioch, from which place they had been commended to the grace of God, for the work which they had accomplished.

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And when he had said this, he gave up his spirit.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love to one another and to all, even as we toward you,

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

for which cause I also suffer these things; yet I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have intrusted to him till that day.

But may the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, confirm you.