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

and this they did, sending to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

And arriving into Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and the apostles, and the elders, and they proclaimed so many things as God did with them.

And having sent from Miletus into Ephesus, he called for the elders of the church.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers:

Is any one sick among you? 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.

Therefore I, being a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, also a communicant of the glory which is about to be revealed, exhort the elders who are among you:

The elder to the elect Cyria, and to her children, whom in truth I love with divine love; and not I, but also those having known the truth;

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I truly love with divine love.

And had

And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas, and Symeon called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenean, and Manahem, the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

They commended

and thence they sailed away into Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

And now I commend you to God and the word of His grace, who is able to edify you, and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And calling with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, He expired.

and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you;

and our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, the one having loved us and given eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

on account of which cause I indeed suffer these things: but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to stand guard over that which is committed unto me unto that day.

But the God of all grace, the one having called you into his own eternal glory in Christ, will himself make you perfect, having suffered a little while, will establish you, will strengthen you, will settle you.