Thematic Bible: Duty of, to ministers

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. Verse Concepts

Receive him therefore with heartfelt Christian joy, and hold in honour men like him; Verse Concepts

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; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Let the Elders who perform their duties wisely and well be held worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in preaching and teaching. Verse Concepts

Remember your former leaders--it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

If Timothy pays you a visit, see that he is free from fear in his relations with you; for he is engaged in the Master's work just as I am. Therefore let no one slight him, but all of you should help him forward in peace to join me; for I am waiting for him and others of the brethren.

But I rejoice with a deep and holy joy that now at length you have revived your thoughtfulness for my welfare. Indeed you have always been thoughtful for me, although opportunity failed you. I do not refer to this through fear of privation, for (for my part) I know both how to live in humble circumstances and how to live amid abundance. I am fully initiated into all the mysteries both of fulness and of hunger, of abundance and of want. read more.
I have strength for anything through Him who gives me power. Yet I thank you for taking your share in my troubles. And you men and women of Philippi also know that at the first preaching of the Good News, when I had left Macedonia, no other Church except yourselves held communication with me about giving and receiving; because even in Thessalonica you sent several times to minister to my needs. Not that I crave for gifts from you, but I do want to see abundant fruit bring you honour. I have enough of everything--and more than enough. My wants are fully satisfied now that I have received from the hands of Epaphroditus the generous gifts which you sent me--they are a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, truly pleasing to God.

Thematic Bible: Duty of, to ministers

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