1 Thessalonians 5:12

Final Exhortations And Benediction

¹¹ Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do. ¹² But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you, ¹³ and to regard them exceedingly in love on account of their work. Be in peace among yourselves.

In Christ

Rule Over

Service Of The Lord

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Corinthians 16:18

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore such.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders who have spoken to you the word of God; and considering the issue of their conversation, imitate their faith.

Luke 10:7

And in the same house abide, eating and drinking such things as they have; for the workman is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards all.

1 Timothy 5:1

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

1 Timothy 5:17-18

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

Titus 1:3

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

Revelation 1:20-1

The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven assemblies.

Revelation 2:3

and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:

Revelation 2:8

And to the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

Revelation 2:12

And to the angel of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things says he that has the sharp two-edged sword:

Revelation 2:18

And to the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass:

Revelation 3:1

And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

Revelation 3:7

And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open:

Revelation 3:14

And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

Matthew 9:37-38

Then saith he to his disciples, The harvest is great and the workmen are few;

Luke 10:1-2

Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

John 4:38

I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

Acts 20:28

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

Acts 20:35

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's fellow-workmen; ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

2 Corinthians 6:1

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 2:19

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

Colossians 1:29

Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

1 Timothy 5:20

Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may have fear.

2 Timothy 2:6

The husbandman must labour before partaking of the fruits.

Titus 1:5

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

Titus 2:15

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

1 Peter 5:2-3

shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;