Bible Verses About Ordaining an Elder
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for ordaining an elder, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 809 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Ordaining an Elder
1 Timothy 5:1727 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Titus 1:524 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Acts 14:2323 votes
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.
Acts 20:1723 votes
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
Acts 6:322 votes
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
1 Timothy 5:122 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
1 Peter 5:521 votes
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Acts 20:2819 votes
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Leviticus 19:3218 votes
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
Hebrews 13:717 votes
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Hebrews 13:1717 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
1 Peter 5:117 votes
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Acts 15:616 votes
And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
Titus 1:616 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Revelation 1:116 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Timothy 5:215 votes
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
2 Timothy 4:515 votes
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Acts 15:414 votes
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
1 Corinthians 14:34-3514 votes
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Timothy 3:114 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1 Timothy 3:414 votes
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1 Timothy 5:1-214 votes
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Titus 1:5-914 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Titus 1:714 votes
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Colossians 3:1713 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
What does the Bible say about ordaining an elder?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:17 on the subject of ordaining an elder. Across 809 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Titus 1:5, Acts 14:23, Acts 20:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.