1 Thessalonians 5:12

Final Exhortations And Benediction

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing. ¹² Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and rule over you in the Lord and admonish you, ¹³ and to esteem them beyond all measure in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

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Service Of The Lord

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also be subject to such people, and to all those who work together and labor.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

1 Corinthians 16:18

for they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such people.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; {considering the outcome of their way of life}, imitate their faith.

Luke 10:7

And remain in the same house, eating and drinking {whatever they provide}, for the worker [is] worthy of his pay. Do not move from house to house.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all [people].

1 Timothy 5:1

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to [him] as a father, younger men as brothers,

1 Timothy 5:17-18

The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching.

Titus 1:3

but at the proper time has disclosed his message in the proclamation [with] which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior,

Revelation 1:20-1

[As for] the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands--the seven stars are [the] angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are [the] seven churches.

Revelation 2:3

And you have patient endurance, and have endured [many things] because of my name, and have not become weary.

Revelation 2:8

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: "This is what the first and the last says, who was dead and came to life:

Revelation 2:12

"And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: "This is what the one who has the sharp double-edged sword says:

Revelation 2:18

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: "This is what the Son of God says, the one who has his eyes like a fiery flame and his feet like fine bronze:

Revelation 3:1

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: "This is what the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead.

Revelation 3:7

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "This is what the holy one, the true one, the one who has the key of David, the one who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open, says:

Revelation 3:14

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: "This is what the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God's creation, says:

Matthew 9:37-38

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest [is] plentiful, but the workers [are] few.

Luke 10:1-2

And after these [things], the Lord also appointed seventy-two others and sent them out two by two before {him} into every town and place where he was about to go.

John 4:38

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own [Son].

Acts 20:35

I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, 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 workers; you are God's field, God's building.

1 Corinthians 12:28

and whom God has appointed in the church: first, apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home [in the body] or absent [from the body], to be acceptable to him.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!

Philippians 2:16

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Philippians 2:19

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be encouraged [when I] know {your circumstances}.

Colossians 1:29

for which [purpose] also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Timothy 5:20

Reprove those who sin in the presence of all, in order that the rest also may experience fear.

2 Timothy 2:6

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops.

Titus 1:5

On account of this, I left you behind in Crete, in order that what remains may be set in order and you may appoint elders in every town, as I ordered you.

Titus 2:15

Speak these [things] and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

1 Peter 5:2-3

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,