1 Thessalonians 5:12

Final Exhortations And Benediction

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another's characters, as indeed you are doing. ¹² We beg you, Brothers, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord's service, and give you counsel. ¹³ Hold them in the very greatest esteem and affection for the sake of their work. Live at peace with one another.

In Christ

Rule Over

Service Of The Lord

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your Leaders, and submit to their control, for they are watching over your souls, as men who will have to render an account, so that they may do it with joy, and not in sorrow. That would not be to your advantage.

1 Corinthians 16:16

I want you, on your part, to show deference to such men as these, as well as to every fellow laborer and earnest worker.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But it is through the love of God that I am what I am, and the love that he showed me has not been wasted. No, I have toiled harder than any of them, and yet it was not I, but the love of God working with me.

1 Corinthians 16:18

They have cheered my heart, and your hearts also. Recognize the worth of such men as these.

Hebrews 13:7

Do not forget your Leaders, the men who told you God's Message. Recall the close of their lives, and imitate their faith.

Luke 10:7

Remain at that same house, and eat and drink whatever they offer you; for the worker is worth his wages. Do not keep changing from one house to another.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We entreat you also, Brothers--warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with every one.

1 Timothy 5:1

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

1 Timothy 5:17-18

Those Officers of the Church who fill their office well should be held deserving of especial consideration, particularly those whose work lies in preaching and teaching.

Titus 1:3

and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

Revelation 1:20-1

the mystic meaning of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are the Angels of the seven Churches, and the seven lamps are the seven Churches.

Revelation 2:3

You possess endurance, and have borne much for my Name, and have never grown weary.

Revelation 2:8

To the Angel of the Church in Smyrna write:-- "These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, but is restored to life:--

Revelation 2:12

To the Angel of the Church in Pergamus write:-- "These are the words of him who holds the sharp two-edged sword:--

Revelation 2:18

To the Angel of the Church in Thyatira write:-- "These are the words of the Son of God, 'whose eyes are like flaming fire, and whose feet are like brass':--

Revelation 3:1

To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write:-- "These are the words of him who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars;--I know your life, and that men say of you that you are living, though you are dead.

Revelation 3:7

To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write:-- "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds 'the Key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one opens':--

Revelation 3:14

To the Angel of the Church in Laodicaea write:-- "These are the words of the Unchanging One, '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 abundant, but the laborers are few.

Luke 10:1-2

After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his Messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit.

John 4:38

I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have entered upon the results of their labor."

Acts 20:28

Be watchful over yourselves, and over the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has placed you in charge, to shepherd the Church of God, which he won for himself at the cost of his life.

Acts 20:35

I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself-- 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

1 Corinthians 3:9

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

1 Corinthians 12:28

In the Church God has appointed, first, Apostles, secondly Preachers, thirdly Teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.

2 Corinthians 6:1

Therefore, as God's fellow-workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving-kindness in vain.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

Galatians 4:11

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.

Philippians 2:16

Offering to men the Message of Life; and then I shall be able at the Day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

Philippians 2:19

I hope, however, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may myself be cheered by receiving news of you.

Colossians 1:29

It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God's Good News.

1 Timothy 5:20

but rebuke offenders publicly, so that others may take warning.

2 Timothy 2:6

The labourer who does the work should be the first to receive a share of the fruits of the earth.

Titus 1:5

My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.

Titus 2:15

Speak of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let any one despise you.

1 Peter 5:2-3

I urge you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;