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title: "The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles"
author: "The Twelve Apostles (attributed)"
translator: "J. B. Lightfoot"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 15 of 16
url: https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/15/
cite: "The Twelve Apostles (attributed), tr. J. B. Lightfoot, The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, section 15. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/15/"
---

# The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

*The Twelve Apostles (attributed), tr. J. B. Lightfoot*

A very early Christian manual on the two ways, baptism, the Eucharist and church order.

## 15. Chapter 15

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/15/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/didache-lightfoot/15/#p-N

[¶0] Appoint for yourselves therefore bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are meek and not lovers of money, and true and approved; for unto you they also perform the service of the prophets and teachers. Therefore despise them not; for they are your honourable men along with the prophets and teachers. And reprove one another, not in anger but in peace, as ye find in the Gospel; and let no one speak to any that has gone wrong towards his neighbour, neither let him hear a word from you, until he repent. But your prayers and your almsgivings and all your deeds so do ye as ye find it in the Gospel of our Lord.