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 he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

The labourers

For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need;

And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.

But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our dear helper in the faith,

Are

Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I, am the only living prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.

For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.

But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

Pray

For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;

The lord

And getting the twelve together, he gave them power and authority over all evil spirits and over diseases, to make them well.

And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.

But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.

Then those who had gone away at the time of the trouble about Stephen, went as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus, preaching to the Jews only.

And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.

And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking.

And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus say: These things says he who has the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the middle of the seven gold lights: