1 Thessalonians 5:12

Final Exhortations And Benediction

¹¹ So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing. ¹² I entreat you, brothers, to acknowledge those who are toiling among you and are your leaders in the Lord, and give you counsel. ¹³ Esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Live in peace among yourselves.

In Christ

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Service Of The Lord

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

1 Corinthians 16:18

They refresh my spirit as they do yours. So cultivate the acquaintance of such men.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the message of God to you; consider the issue of their lives, and imitate their faith.

Luke 10:7

"Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give. for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not go from house to house.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

1 Timothy 5:1

Do not reprimand an aged man, but continue pleading with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

1 Timothy 5:17-18

Let the elders who fill their offices well, be held worthy of twofold honor; especially those who have the task of preaching and teaching.

Titus 1:3

but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.

Revelation 1:20-1

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, is this. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches."

Revelation 2:3

You are holding fast, and have borne up for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

Revelation 2:8

And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna, write. These are the words of the First and the Last, he who died and has returned to life.

Revelation 2:12

And to the angel of the Church in Pergamum, write These are the words of Him who holds the sharp two-edged sword.

Revelation 2:18

And to the angel of the Church in Thyatira, write. These are the words of the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like burnished brass.

Revelation 3:1

To the angel of the Church at Sardis, write. These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have the name of being alive, but are really dead.

Revelation 3:7

Write also to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia. These things says He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no one shall shut; and who shuts, and no one opens.

Revelation 3:14

To the angel of the Church in Laodicea, write. These things says the Amen, the witness, faithful and true, the beginning of the creation of God.

Matthew 9:37-38

And he said to his disciples. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few;

Luke 10:1-2

After this the appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two before his face, into every city and place into which he himself intended to go.

John 4:38

I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."

Acts 20:28

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

Acts 20:35

"In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

2 Corinthians 5:9

And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

Galatians 4:11

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

Philippians 2:16

holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

Philippians 2:19

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.

Colossians 1:29

For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

1 Timothy 5:20

Rebuke offenders publicly, so that others also may take warning.

2 Timothy 2:6

The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you might set right the things left unfinished, and appoint presbyters in every city as I had instructed you;

Titus 2:15

Thus speak, exhort, reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

1 Peter 5:2-3

Be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly, and not through compulsion; not for filthy lucre, but with a willing mind;