11 Bible Verses about Ordination
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And Simon Peter responding said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And He made twelve (apostles) that they may be with Him and that He may send them out to preach, and to have power to heal diseases, and to cast out the demons.
And when it was day, He called His disciples to Him: and having chosen twelve from them, whom He also named apostles;
the Antiochian proselyte, whom they placed before the apostles, and having prayed, they placed their hands on them.
Then they having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, sent them away.
And electing elders for them in every church, praying with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same;
Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given unto you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
On account of which cause I remind you to revive and refire the gift of God which is in you by the laying on of my hands.
Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you;
From Thematic Bible
Ordination » What has been ordained
but we speak the wisdom of God having been hidden in a mystery, which God predestinated before the ages unto our glory:
Do you not know that those working in the sacrifices eat those things of the temple; and those serving the altar partake of the altar? So also the Lord has commanded those preaching the gospel to live of the gospel.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, in order that no one may boast: for we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.
and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death.
Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except that which is from God; and the existing authorities have been ordained of God. So the one resisting the authority, antagonizes the ordinance of God: and those antagonizing shall receive to themselves judgment.
Ordination » Who is ordained
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit. So ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. read more.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to produce fruit of itself, unless it may abide in the vine; so you are not able, unless you may abide in me. I am the vine, and ye are the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: because you are not able to do anything without me. If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt. If you may abide in me, and my words may abide in you, ask whatsoever you may wish, and it shall be done unto you. In this my Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and ye shall be my disciples. As the Father loved me, I also loved you: abide in my love. If you may keep my commandments, abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and I abide in His love. I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you may love one another, as I loved you. No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends. You are my friends, if you may do those things which I command you. No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; because all things which I heard with my Father, I made known unto you. You did not choose me, but I chose you, and placed you in your position, that you may go forth and bear fruit, and your fruit may abide: in order that He may give you whatsoever you may ask in my name.
in which I have been placed a herald and an apostle I speak the truth, I lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and in truth.
Ordination » Jesus Christ being ordained
This word you know, which was throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; Jesus, the one from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Ghost and power: who went about doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil: because God is with Him. And we are witnesses in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they even slew, hanging him on the wood. read more.
God raised him on the third day, and gave him to be made manifest; not to all the people, but to the witnesses having been chosen of God, to us, who ate and drank along with him after He arose from the dead: and He commanded us to preach to the people, and to witness that He is the One ordained of God the Judge of the living and the dead. And to Him give all the prophets witness, that every one believing on him receives the remission of sins through His name.
Then indeed God winking at the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent: as He has appointed a day, in which he is about to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; giving faith to all, having raised Him from the dead.
knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold, but by the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and spotless: foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but having been made manifest at the last of the times for the sake of you,
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