Verse 1

Do not rebuke an elder, but appeal to him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;

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  • Lev 19:32 : 32 You shall rise before the gray-headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.
  • 1 Pet 5:5-6 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time:
  • 1 Tim 5:19-20 : 19 Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses. 20 Those who sin rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.
  • Titus 2:2 : 2 That the older men be sober, dignified, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-minded.
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, if a man is caught in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
  • 1 Tim 5:17 : 17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.
  • 1 Pet 5:1 : 1 The elders 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:
  • Titus 1:5-6 : 5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you— 6 If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.
  • Rom 13:7 : 7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
  • Matt 18:15-17 : 15 Moreover if your brother trespasses against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector.
  • Matt 23:8 : 8 But do not be called Rabbi: for one is your Teacher, the Christ; and all you are brethren.
  • Acts 14:23 : 23 And when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
  • Acts 15:4 : 4 And when they came to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
  • Acts 15:6 : 6 And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.
  • Acts 20:17 : 17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the church.
  • Gal 2:11-14 : 11 But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before certain men came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews?
  • Deut 33:9 : 9 Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew his own children: for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant.
  • 2 Tim 2:24-25 : 24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
  • Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. 10 I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains:
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
  • Jas 5:14 : 14 Is anyone 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.
  • 2 John 1:1 : 1 The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who have known the truth.
  • 3 John 1:1 : 1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
  • Rev 4:4 : 4 Around the throne were twenty-four seats, and upon the seats I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had crowns of gold on their heads.