Deuteronomy 1:13

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

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.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

“ ‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.

If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.

No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.