12 Bible Verses about Officers

Who instantly taking soldiers and centurions ran down unto them: and when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.

On the morrow therefore, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with a very splendid retinue, and were entered into the place of audience, with the military tribunes, and the men of superior eminence in the city, then at the order of Festus Paul was produced.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

So he sent to Ephesus from Miletus, and called the presbyters of the church to attend him.

IT is a true saying, If a man seeks the office of a bishop, he desireth a laudable employment.

Let the elders who preside properly be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who are laborious in preaching and teaching.

For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

Be disposed to agree with thy prosecutor speedily, whilst thou art in the way with him [to the bar]; lest the prosecutor deliver thee up to the judge, and the judge commit thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

For as thou art going with thy prosecutor to the magistrate, on the way endeavour to make up the matter with him; lest he drag thee before the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

And he went and conversed with the chief priests and the captains, by what means he could betray him unto them.

But the officers, on their arrival, found them not in the prison: and returning, informed them,

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the lictors, saying, Set those men at large.