Quotes about Elders

At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”

I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”

This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Barnabas and Saul.

Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.

So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”