1 Thessalonians 5:12

Easy To Read Version

Now brothers and sisters, we ask you to respect those people who work hard with you—those who lead you in the Lord and teach you.

Cross References

Luke 10:7

Stay in the peaceful house. Eat and drink what the people there give you. A worker should be given his pay. Don’t leave that house to stay in another house.

John 4:38

I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Other people did the work, and you get the profit from their work.”

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people that God has given you. The Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [406]} gave you the work of caring for this flock. {\cf2\super [407]} You must be like shepherds to the church (people) of God. {\cf2\super [408]} This is the church that God bought with his own blood. {\cf2\super [409]}

Acts 20:35

I always showed you that you should work like I did and help people that are weak. I taught you to remember the words of the Lord Jesus. Jesus said, ‘You will be happier when you give than when you receive.’”

Romans 16:12

Say hello to Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Those women work very hard for the Lord. Say hello to my dear friend Persis. She has also worked very hard for the Lord.

Romans 16:6

Say hello to Mary. She worked very hard for you.

1 Corinthians 12:28

And in the church God has given a place first to apostles, {\cf2\super [89]} second to prophets, {\cf2\super [90]} and third to teachers. Then God has given a place to those people that do miracles, {\cf2\super [91]} those people that have gifts of healing, those people that can help others, those people that are able to lead, and those people that can speak in different kinds of languages.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But, because of God’s grace (gift), that is what I am. And his grace that he gave me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.)

1 Corinthians 16:16

to follow the leading of people like these, and any other person that works and serves with them.

1 Corinthians 16:18

They have given rest to my spirit and to yours. You should recognize the value of men like these.

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are workers together for God. And you are like a farm that belongs to God.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are those people serving Christ? I am serving him more. (I am crazy to talk like this.) I have worked much harder than those people. I have been in prison more often. I have been hurt more in beatings. I have been near death many times.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Our only goal is to please God. We want to please him when we are living here \{in our body\} or there \{with the Lord\}.

2 Corinthians 6:1

We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace (kindness) that you received from God be for nothing.

Philippians 2:16

You offer those people the teaching that gives life. So I can be happy when Christ comes again. I can be happy because my work was not wasted. I ran in the race and won.

Philippians 2:19

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon. I will be happy to learn how you are.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

Brothers and sisters, I know that you remember how hard we worked. We worked night and day. We did not want to burden you \{by making you pay us\} while we did the work of telling God’s Good News to you.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Brothers and sisters, now I have some other things to tell you. We taught you how to live in a way that will please God. And you are living that way. Now we ask you and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live that way more and more.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We ask you, brothers and sisters, to warn those people who don’t work. Encourage the people who are afraid. Help the people who are weak. Be patient with every person.

1 Timothy 5:1

Don’t speak angrily to an older man. But talk to him like he was your father. Treat the younger men like brothers.

1 Timothy 5:20

Tell those who sin that they are wrong. Do this in front of the whole church. In that way the others will have a warning.

2 Timothy 2:6

The farmer who works hard should be the first person to get some of the food that he grew.

Titus 1:3

At the right time God let the world know about that life. God did this through the telling of the \{Good News\} message. {\cf2\super [2]} And he trusted me with that work. I told people that message because God our Savior commanded me to.

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete so that you could finish doing the things that still needed to be done. And I also left you there so that you could choose men to be elders {\cf2\super [3]} in every town.

Titus 2:15

Tell the people these things. You have full authority (power). So use that authority to help the people and to correct them when they are wrong. And don’t let any person treat you like you are not important.

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and be under their authority. Those men are responsible for you. So they are always watching to protect your souls. Obey those men so that they can be happy in this work. It won’t help you to make it hard for them.

Hebrews 13:7

Remember your leaders. They taught God’s message to you. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith.

Revelation 1:20

Here is the hidden meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands that you saw: The seven lampstands are the seven churches. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches.

Revelation 2:12

“Write this to the angel of the church in Pergamum:

Revelation 2:18

“Write this to the angel of the church in Thyatira:

Revelation 2:3

You continue to try without quitting. You endured \{troubles\} for my name. And you have not become tired of doing this.

Revelation 2:8

“Write this to the angel of the church in Smyrna:

Revelation 3:1

“Write this to the angel of the church in Sardis:

Revelation 3:14

“Write this to the angel of the church in Laodicea:

Revelation 3:7

“Write this to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: