Hebrews 13:17
Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.
Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the holy Spirit hath appointed you bishops, to feed the church of God, which He purchased with his own blood.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your guides, who spake the word of God to you; whose faith imitate, considering the happy end of their conversation.
1 Corinthians 16:16
have set themselves to minister to the saints) that you also would be subservient to such, and to every one that worketh and laboureth with us.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders, who preside well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially those that labour in preaching and teaching.
Luke 16:2
And he called him, and said unto him, What is this I hear of thee? give up the accounts of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.
Acts 20:24-26
But none of these things move me, nor do I account my life dear, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Romans 14:12
So that every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
Let a man so account of us, as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Corinthians 5:10-11
For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, that every one may receive for the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it were good or bad.
Ephesians 5:21
submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of God.
Philippians 1:4
(always making supplication for you all with joy
Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed the gospel, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence; be still working out your own salvation though with fear and trembling:
Philippians 2:16
exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
Philippians 2:29
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in high esteem:
Philippians 3:18
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction,
Philippians 4:1
Wherefore, my brethren, beloved and much desired, my joy and crown, so stand ye fast in the Lord, my beloved.
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? are not ye also among others in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 3:9-10
For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13
And we entreat you, brethren, to respect those that labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and instruct you;
2 Thessalonians 3:14
by this epistle, mark such a one, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.
Hebrews 13:24
Salute all that preside over you, yea and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1 Peter 5:2-3
taking the episcopal charge of it, not by constraint, but willingly; not for shameful lucre, but with a ready mind:
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder; and all of you behaving with due submission one to another, be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.