Bible Verses about “ordination”

“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”

“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

“Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.”

“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”

“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”

“neither give place to the devil.”

“Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.”

“He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;”

“with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;”

“for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;”

“and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,”

“that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;”

“and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”

“being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

“I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,”

“until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”

“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;”

“that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;”

“from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.”

“Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.”

“You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

“one Lord, one faith, one baptism,”

“being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;”

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;”

“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

“Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

“one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.”

“who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”

“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,”

“But you did not learn Christ that way;”

“if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:”

“But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.”

“Therefore he says, "When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."”

“Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?”

“He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.”

“I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;”

“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”

“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”

“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”

“Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.”

“Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.”

“When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.”

“And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;”