16 But if he does not listen, take along with you one or two more, so that on the testimony* of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.+

17 Also, in your own Law it is written: ‘The witness of two men is true.’+

13 This is the third time I am coming to you. “On the testimony* of two or three witnesses every matter must be established.”+

19 Do not accept an accusation against an older man* except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.+