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1 Timothy 5:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

Presbyters who are efficient presidents are to be considered worthy of ample remuneration, particularly those who have the task of preaching and teaching:

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Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves.

Those who are taught must share all the blessings of life with those who teach them the Word.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another.

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

The farmer who has done the work must have the first share of the fruit.

Give him a welcome in the Lord, then, with your hearts full of joy. Value men like that,

the speaker his words of counsel; the contributor must be liberal, the superintendent must be in earnest, the sick visitor must be cheerful.

they made us rich presents and furnished us, when we set sail, with all we needed.

I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who work hard in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis; she has worked very hard in the Lord.

Such was their decision; and yet this is a debt they owe to these people, for if the Gentiles have shared their spiritual blessings, they owe them a debt of aid in material blessings.

And you, my true comrade, lend a hand to these women, I beg of you; they have fought at my side in the active service of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Well, I want you to put yourselves under people like that, under everyone who sets his hand to the work.

This they carried out, sending their contribution to the presbyters by Barnabas and Saul.

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

Watch yourself and watch your teaching; stick to your work; if you do that, you will save your hearers as well as yourself.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

(I am telling you this beforehand.)

Salute all your leaders and all the saints. The Italians salute you.

that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" — of believers in particular.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

The Lord said, "Well, where is the trusty, thoughtful steward whom the lord and master will set over his establishment to give out supplies at the proper time?

Widows who really need it must be supported from the funds.

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

You have a gift that came to you transmitted by the prophets, when the presbytery laid their hands upon you; do not neglect that gift.

Never let any charge be brought against a presbyter, unless it is certified by two or three witnesses.




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