Verse 19

Agaynst an elder receaue none accusation, but vnder two or three witnesses.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 18:16 : 16 But yf he heare thee not, then take yet with thee one or two: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, euery worde may be stablyshed.
  • Deut 19:15 : 15 One witnesse shall not rise agaynst a man for any maner trespasse, or for any maner sinne, or for any maner fault that he offendeth in: but at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished.
  • Deut 17:6 : 6 At the mouth of two or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, dye: and at the mouth of one witnesse, let no man dye.
  • Deut 19:18-19 : 18 And the iudges shall make diligent inquisition: and if the witnesse be founde false, and that he hath geuen false witnesse agaynst his brother: 19 Then shall ye do vnto hym, as he had thought to do vnto his brother, & thou shalt put euyll away from the middes of thee.
  • John 8:17 : 17 It is also written in your lawe, that the testimonie of two men is true.
  • John 18:29 : 29 Pilate then went out vnto them, and said: What accusatio bryng you against this man?
  • Acts 11:30 : 30 Which thyng they also dyd, and sent it to the elders by the handes of Barnabas and Saul.
  • Acts 24:2-9 : 2 And when Paul was called foorth, Tartullus began to accuse hym, saying: Seyng that we obtayned great quietnesse by the meanes of thee, and that many good thynges are done vnto this nation through thy prouidence, 3 That alowe we euer, & in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankes. 4 Notwithstandyng, that I be not tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy curtesie a fewe wordes. 5 For we haue founde this man a pestilent felowe, and a mouer of debate vnto all the Iewes in the whole worlde, and a maynteyner of the sect of the Nazarites. 6 And hath gone about to pollute the temple: Whom we toke, and woulde haue iudged accordyng to our lawe. 7 But the hye captayne Lysias, came vpon vs, and with great violence toke hym away out of our handes, 8 Commaundyng his accusers to come vnto thee: Of whom thou mayest, yf thou wilt enquire, knowe the certayntie of all these thynges, wherof we accuse hym. 9 And the Iewes lykewyse affirmed, saying that these thynges were so. 10 The Paul, after that the deputie hym selfe had beckened vnto hym that he shoulde speake, aunswered: With a more quiet mynde do I aunswere for my selfe, forasmuch as I vnderstande, that thou haste ben of many yeres a iudge vnto this nation: 11 Because that thou mayest knowe, that there are yet but twelue dayes, sence I went vp to Hierusalem for to worshyp. 12 And they neither founde me in the temple disputyng with any man, either raysyng vp the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the citie. 13 Neither can they proue the thynges wherof they accuse me.
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I aunswered: It is not the maner of the Romanes, for fauour to delyuer any man that he shoulde perishe, before that he which is accused, haue the accusers before hym, and haue licence to aunswere for hymselfe, concernyng the cryme layde agaynst hym.
  • 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 Nowe come I the third time vnto you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall euery worde be stablisshed.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 If any be blamelesse, the husbande of one wyfe, hauyng faythfull chyldren, not accusable of riote, or vntractable.
  • Heb 10:28 : 28 He that despiseth Moyses lawe, dyeth without mercie vnder two or thre witnesses: