Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Acts 15:6 - Tree of Life Version The emissaries and elders were gathered together to examine this issue. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The apostles and the elders were assembled together to look into and consider this matter. American Standard Version (1901) And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter. Common English Bible The apostles and the elders gathered to consider this matter. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Apostles and elders came together to take care of this matter. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter. |
Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst.”
This they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
When Paul and Barnabas had a big argument and debate with them, the brothers appointed Paul and Barnabas with some others from among them to go up to Jerusalem to the emissaries and elders about this issue.
Then it seemed good to the emissaries and elders, with the whole community, to choose men from among themselves to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judah (also called Barsabbas) and Silas, leading men among the brethren,
it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to select men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul—
When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the community and the emissaries and the elders. They reported all that God had done in helping them.
As they were traveling through the cities, they were handing down the rulings that had been decided upon by the emissaries and elders in Jerusalem, for them to keep.
On the next day, Paul went in with us to Jacob; all the elders were present.
So the Twelve called together the whole group of the disciples and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as ones who must give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no benefit to you.
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.