Hebrews 13:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Obey

1 Timothy 5:17

Submit

Give account

Luke 16:2

Romans 14:12

2 Corinthians 5:10

With joy

1 Thessalonians 3:9

With grief

Philippians 3:18

General references

Acts 15:6

Bible References

Obey

Remember your guides, who spake the word of God to you; whose faith imitate, considering the happy end of their conversation.

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:

And we entreat you, brethren, to respect those that labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and instruct you;

by this epistle, mark such a one, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Let the elders, who preside well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially those that labour in preaching and teaching.

Submit

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.

submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of God.

Submit yourselves therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

Give account

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.

So that every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.

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.

With joy

(always making supplication for you all with joy

exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Wherefore, my brethren, beloved and much desired, my joy and crown, so stand ye fast in the Lord, my beloved.

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?

For what thanks can we render to God concerning you, for all the joy wherewith we rejoice on your account before our God,

With grief

(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,

General references

So the apostles and elders were assembled together to consider about this matter.