Luke 10:2

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Luke 10:2

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Summary

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

The harvest

Matthew 9:37

John 4:35

1 Corinthians 3:6

The labourers

Are

Pray

2 Thessalonians 3:1

The lord

Bible References

The harvest

Then saith he to his disciples, The harvest is great and the workmen are few;

Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.

I have planted; Apollos watered; but God has given the increase.

The labourers

For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

Whereunto also I toil, combating according to his working, which works in me in power.

Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you,

for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

Let the elders who take the lead among the saints well be esteemed worthy of double honour, specially those labouring in word and teaching;

Take thy share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

But thou, be sober in all things, bear evils, do the work of an evangelist, fill up the full measure of thy ministry.

Paul, prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-workman,

Are

And Elijah said to the people, I, only I, remain a prophet of Jehovah; and Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

And the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, and the Lord will give it into the king's hand.

All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, all ye beasts in the forest.

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy; and say unto them, unto the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel that feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

whose possessors slay them without being held guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah! for I am become rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.

For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

And the court which is without the temple cast out, and measure it not; because it has been given up to the nations, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.

Pray

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

The lord

And having called together the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases,

And I will come down and talk with thee there; and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, and thou shalt not bear it alone.

The Lord gives the word: great the host of the publishers.

And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all the creation.

Those then that had been scattered went through the countries announcing the glad tidings of the word.

They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through the country to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.

And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.

And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

And God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him

but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamps: