Thematic Bible: Duty of, to ministers


Thematic Bible




Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation,

And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love on account of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.



If Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he performs the work of the Lord, as I also do; let no one therefore despise him. But send him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I look for him with the brothers.

But I rejoice greatly in the Lord, that now at length you began again to care for me, for whom also you did care, but had no opportunity [to serve me]. Not that I speak of want; for I have learned in whatever circumstances I am to be contented. I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to abound; in every thing and in all conditions I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer want. read more.
I endure all things with him that strengthens me. But you did well to communicate with my affliction, And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only; for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need. Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to your account. But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.