Hebrews 13:7

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Summary

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Which

Word

Whose

Considering

Acts 7:55

General references

Acts 15:6

1 Corinthians 4:16

Bible References

Which

Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.

"Who therefore is the loyal and intelligent servant to whom his master has entrusted the control of his household to give them their rations at the appointed time?

"Who, then," replied the Lord, "is the faithful and intelligent steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household to serve out their rations at the proper times?

And in every Church, after prayer and fasting, they selected Elders by show of hands, and commended them to the Lord on whom their faith rested.

Now we beg you, brethren, to show respect for those who labour among you and are your leaders in Christian work, and are your advisers;

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)

Word

The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.

When they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were, one and all, filled with the Holy Spirit, and proceeded to tell God's Message with boldness.

Then, throwing off all reserve, Paul and Barnabas said, "We were bound to proclaim God's Message to you first. But since you spurn it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of the Life of the Ages--well, we turn to the Gentiles.

And this proves that faith comes from a Message heard, and that the Message comes through its having been spoken by Christ.

And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.

I John, your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows and Kingship and patient endurance of Jesus, found myself in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of God and the truth told us by Jesus.

When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed because of the word of God and of the testimony which they had given.

And I saw thrones, and some who were seated on them, to whom judgment was entrusted. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony that they had borne to Jesus and on account of God's Message, and also the souls of those who had not worshipped the Wild Beast or his statue, nor received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands; and they came to Life and were kings with Christ for a thousand years.

Whose

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

I entreat you therefore to become like me.

Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.

Brethren, vie with one another in imitating me, and carefully observe those who follow the example which we have set you.

And you followed the pattern set you by us and by the Master, after you had received the Message amid severe persecution, and yet with the joy which the Holy Spirit gives,

For you yourselves know that it is your duty to follow our example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,

Considering

But, full of the Holy Spirit and looking up to Heaven, Stephen saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

General references

Then the Apostles and Elders met to consider the matter;

I entreat you therefore to become like me.