Verse 19
Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.
Referenced Verses
- Matt 18:16 : 16 and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.
- Deut 19:15 : 15 `One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.
- Deut 17:6 : 6 By the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses is he who is dead put to death; he is not put to death by the mouth of one witness;
- Deut 19:18-19 : 18 and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness `is' a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother: 19 `Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,
- John 8:17 : 17 and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;
- John 18:29 : 29 Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'
- Acts 11:30 : 30 which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
- Acts 24:2-9 : 2 and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse `him', saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, 3 always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness; 4 and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; 5 for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes -- 6 who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, 7 and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, 8 having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;' 9 and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so. 10 And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer; 11 thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, 12 and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city; 13 nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.
- Acts 25:16 : 16 unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against `him'.
- 2 Cor 13:1 : 1 This third time do I come unto you; on the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every saying be established;
- Titus 1:6 : 6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --
- Heb 10:28 : 28 any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,