1 Timothy 5:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Listen to no accusation [presented before a judge] against an elder unless it is confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. [Deut. 19:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Don’t accept an accusation made against an elder unless it is confirmed by two or three witnesses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Do not be willing to accept an accusation against a priest, except under two or three witnesses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or three witnesses.

1 Timothy 5:19 Cross References

Matthew 18:16

But if he hear thee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be established.

John 18:29

Pilate therefore went out unto them, and saith, What accusation bring ye against this man?

John 8:17

Yea and in your law it is written, that the witness of two men is true.

Acts 11:30

which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 25:16

To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defence concerning the matter laid against him.

2 Corinthians 13:1

This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word be established.

Deuteronomy 17:6

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

1 Timothy 4:14

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and in teaching.

Titus 1:6

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

Hebrews 10:28

A man that hath set at nought Moses' law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: