1 Thessalonians 5:12

American Standard Version (1901)

But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

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  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them] : for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were] unprofitable for you.
  • 1 Cor 16:16 : 16 that ye also be in subjection unto such, and to every one that helpeth in the work and laboreth.
  • 1 Cor 16:18 : 18 For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.
  • Titus 1:3 : 3 but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
  • Rev 1:20-2:1 : 20 the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches. 1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.
  • Rev 2:8 : 8 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived [again] :
  • Rev 2:12 : 12 and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:
  • Rev 2:18 : 18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass:
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
  • Luke 10:7 : 7 And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
  • 1 Tim 5:1 : 1 Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. 18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire.
  • 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
  • 2 Tim 2:6 : 6 The husbandmen that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.
  • John 4:38 : 38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
  • 1 Cor 12:28 : 28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues.
  • 2 Cor 5:9 : 9 Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
  • 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain.
  • Phil 2:16 : 16 holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.
  • Phil 2:19 : 19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • Titus 1:5 : 5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;
  • Titus 2:15 : 15 These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
  • Matt 9:37-38 : 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few. 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.
  • Luke 10:1-2 : 1 Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come. 2 And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

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