Therefore, brothers, select seven men from among you, of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint for this need.

Moreover he must have a good testimony among those outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

having a reputation for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

Likewise also the good works [of some] are evident beforehand, and those which are otherwise cannot be hidden.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

For by it the elders obtained witness.

And having preached the gospel to that city and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,

persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, in Iconium, at Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.