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

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

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

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Is any 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,

Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

And had

Now in the church that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

They commended

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

Now I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.