Hebrews 13:7 Themes and Topics

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They also honored us with many presents, and when we set sail, they supplied us with everything that we needed. Verse Concepts

So give him a hearty Christian welcome and hold in honor men like him, Verse Concepts

We beg you, brothers, to practice showing respect to those who labor among you, who are your leaders in the Lord's work, and who advise you; continue to hold them in the highest esteem for the sake of the work they do. Practice living at peace with one another.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching. Verse Concepts

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

Aristarchus, my fellow-prisoner, wishes to be remembered to you; and so does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas; if he comes to see you, give him a hearty welcome. Verse Concepts

We beg you, brothers, to practice showing respect to those who labor among you, who are your leaders in the Lord's work, and who advise you; continue to hold them in the highest esteem for the sake of the work they do. Practice living at peace with one another.

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

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You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's. I prize and praise you for always remembering me and for firmly standing by the teachings as I passed them on to you.

Now I beg you, brothers -- you know that the family of Stephanas were the first converts in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people -- I beg you to put yourselves under leaders like these, and under anyone who cooperates with you, and labors hard.

Follow my example, brothers, and keep your eyes on those who practice living by the pattern we have set you. Verse Concepts

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief. Verse Concepts

So give him a hearty Christian welcome and hold in honor men like him, Verse Concepts

We beg you, brothers, to practice showing respect to those who labor among you, who are your leaders in the Lord's work, and who advise you; continue to hold them in the highest esteem for the sake of the work they do. Practice living at peace with one another.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching. Verse Concepts

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

If Timothy gets there, see that he is at ease among you, for he is devotedly doing the work of the Lord, just as I am. So no one must slight him at all. But send him on with your goodbye, that he may come back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

I was made very happy as a Christian to have your interest in my welfare revived again after so long; because you have always had the interest but not the opportunity to show it. Not that I refer to any personal want, for I have learned to be contented in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to live in lowly circumstances and I know how to live in plenty. I have learned the secret, in all circumstances, of either getting a full meal or of going hungry, of living in plenty or being in want. read more.
I can do anything through Him who gives me strength. But you did me a kindness to share my sorrow with me. And you Philippians yourselves know that immediately after the good news was first preached to you, when I left Macedonia, no church but yours went into partnership with me to open an account of credits and debits. Even while I was at Thessalonica you sent money more than once for my needs. It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit. I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Verse Concepts

and not as domineering over those in your charge but proving yourselves models for the flock to imitate; Verse Concepts

In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching, let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

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And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, because you welcomed our message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, in spite of the painful persecutions it brought you, so that you became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece. (1:7) For the message of the Lord has rung out from you, not only in Macedonia and Greece, but everywhere the report of your faith in God has been told, so that we need never mention it.

As an example of ill-treatment and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful.

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul. Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day. For the Lord's sake submit to all human authority; to the emperor as supreme, read more.
and to governors as sent by Him to punish those who do evil and to reward those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God. Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor. You house-servants must be submissive to your masters and show them perfect respect, not only to those who are kind and fair but also to those who are cruel. For it is pleasing in the sight of God for one to bear his sorrows though suffering innocently. For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God. Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps. He never committed a sin, and deceit was never found on His lips. Although He was abused, He never retorted; although He continued to suffer, He never threatened, but committed His case to Him who judges justly. He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed, for once you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of Your souls.

For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves. They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

So give him a hearty Christian welcome and hold in honor men like him, Verse Concepts

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching. Verse Concepts

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

continue to hold them in the highest esteem for the sake of the work they do. Practice living at peace with one another. Verse Concepts

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief. Verse Concepts

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith. Verse Concepts

Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow. Verse Concepts

So I beg you, make it your habit to follow my example, Verse Concepts

Practice the things you learned, received, and heard from me, things that you saw me do, and then the God who gives us peace will be with you. Verse Concepts

so that you may not grow careless, but may follow the example of those who through their faith and patient endurance are now possessors of the blessings promised. Verse Concepts

And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, because you welcomed our message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, in spite of the painful persecutions it brought you, Verse Concepts