Verse 21

Morouer seke out amonge all the people, men of actiuite which feare God and men that are true ad hate covetuousnes: and make them heedes ouer the people, captaynes ouer thousandes, ouer hundredes, ouer fyftie, and ouer ten.

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 6:3 : 3 Wherfore brethren loke ye out amoge you seven men of honest reporte and full of the holy goost and wysdome which we maye apoynte to this nedfull busynes.
  • Deut 16:18-19 : 18 Ivdges and officers thou shalt make the in all thi cities which the Lorde thi God geueth the thorow out thi trybes. and lett the iudge the people righteously. 19 Wrest not the lawe nor knowe any persone nether take any rewarde: for giftes blynde the wise and peruerte the wordes of the righteous.
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 And Ioseph sayde vnto the the thryd daye: This doo and lyue for I feare God
  • Exod 18:25 : 25 and chose actyue men out of all Israel and made them heedes ouer the people, captaynes ouer thousandes, ouer hundreds, ouer fiftie and ouer ten
  • Exod 23:2-9 : 2 Thou shalt not folowe a multitude to do euell: nether answere in a mater of plee that thou woldest to folow many turne a syde from the trueth, 3 nether shalt thou paynte a porre mans cause. 4 whe thou metest thine enimies oxe or asse goynge a straye, thou shalt brynge the to him agayne. 5 Yf thou se thine enimies asse synke vnder his burthen, thou shalt not passe by and let him alone: but shalt helpe him to lyfte him vp agayne. 6 Thou shalt not hynder the righte of the poore that are amonge you in their sute. 7 Kepe the ferre from a false mater, and the Innocent and righteous se thou sley not, for I will not iustifye the weked. 8 Thou shalt take no giftes, for giftes blynde the seynge and peruerte the wordes of the righteous. 9 Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger, for I knowe the herte of straunger, because ye were straungers in Egipte.
  • Num 10:4 : 4 Yf but one trumpet blowe only then the princes which are heedes ouer the thousandes of Ysrael shall come vnto the.
  • Deut 1:13-17 : 13 brynge therfore men of wisdome and of vnderstondinge and expert knowne amonge youre trybes, that I maye make them ruelars ouer you. 14 And ye answered me and sayed: that which thou hast spoken is good to be done. 15 And then I toke the heedes of youre trybes, men of wysdome and that were expert, and made them ruelers ouer you: captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundredes ouer fyftye and ouer ten, and officers amonge youre trybes. 16 And I charged youre Iudges the same tyme sayenge: heare youre brethern and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother and the straunges that is with him. 17 Se that ye knowe no man in Iudgement: but heare the small as well as the greate and be afrayed of no man, for the lawe is Gods. And the cause that is to harde for you, brynge vnto me and I will heare it.
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I have desyred no mas silver golde or vesture.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 They that wilbe ryche faule into temptacio and snares and into many folysshe and noysome lustes which droune me in perdicion and destruccion. 10 For coveteousnes is the rote of all evyll which whill some lusted after they erred fro the fayth and tanglyd them selves with many sorowes. 11 But thou which arte the man of god flye soche thynges Folowe rightewesnes godlines love pacience and meknes.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 havinge eyes full of advoutrie and that canot cease to synne begylynge vnstable soules. Hertes they have exercised wt coveteousnes. They are cursed chyldren 15 and have forsaken the right waye and are gone astraye folowinge ye waye of Balam the sonne of Bosor which loved the rewarde of vnrightewesnes:
  • Luke 18:2 : 2 sayinge: Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.
  • Luke 18:4 : 4 And he wolde not for a whyle. But afterwarde he sayd vnto him selfe: though I feare not God nor care for man
  • Gen 22:12 : 12 And he sayde: laye not thy handes apon the childe nether do any thinge at all vnto him for now I knowe that thou fearest God in yt thou hast not kepte thine only sonne fro me.