The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.
When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.
And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
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