Acts 15:6

²²Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

⁷Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

²⁵it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

¹⁷Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

²The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

¹⁸The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

⁴When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

²⁰For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”