ACTS
14:23
23
And when they (Paul and Barnabas) had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to
the Lord, on whom they had believed.
I
PETER 5:1-4
1
The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness
of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be
revealed: 2 Tend the
flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but
willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a
ready mind; 3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making
yourselves ensamples to the
flock.
PHILIPPIANS
1:1
1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus
that are at Philippi,
with the bishops and deacons...
ACTS
20:17,28
17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church. 28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops to feed the church of the Lord which He purchased with His own blood.
