1 Thessalonians 5:12

Weymouth NT

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;

Cross References

Luke 10:7

And in that same house stay, eating and drinking at their table; for the labourer deserves his wages. Do not move from one house to another.

John 4:38

I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours.«

Acts 20:28

»Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.«

Acts 20:35

In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, »`It is more blessed to give than to receive.'«

Romans 16:12

Greetings to those Christian workers, Tryphaena and Tryphosa; also to dear Persis, who has laboured strenuously in the Lord's work.

Romans 16:6

to Mary who has laboured strenuously among you;

1 Corinthians 12:28

And by God's appointment there are in the Church–first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of `tongues.'

1 Corinthians 15:10

But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest–yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

1 Corinthians 16:16

I beseech you, on your part, to show deference to such men, and to every one who participates in their work and toils hard.

1 Corinthians 16:18

They have refreshed my spirit, and yours. Acknowledge such men as these.

1 Corinthians 3:9

Apollos and I are simply fellow workers for and with God, and you are God's field– God's building.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.) Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments, by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life many a time.

2 Corinthians 5:9

And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.

2 Corinthians 6:1

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

Galatians 4:11

I am alarmed about you, and am afraid that I have perhaps bestowed labour upon you to no purpose.

Philippians 2:16

holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.

Philippians 2:19

But, if the Lord permits it, I hope before long to send Timothy to you, that I, in turn, may be cheered by getting news of you.

Colossians 1:29

To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, sustain the weak, and be patient towards all.

1 Timothy 5:1

Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers;

1 Timothy 5:20

Those who persist in sin reprove in the presence of all, so that it may also be a warning to the rest.

2 Timothy 2:6

The harvestman who labours in the field must be the first to get a share of the crop.

Titus 1:3

And at the appointed time He clearly made known His Message in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour:

Titus 1:5

I have left you behind in Crete in order that you may set right the things which still require attention, and appoint Elders in every town, as I directed you to do;

Titus 2:15

Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.

Hebrews 13:17

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.

Hebrews 13:7

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.

Revelation 1:20

the secret meaning of the seven stars which you have seen in My right hand, and of the seven lampstands of gold. The seven stars are the ministers of the seven Churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven Churches.

Revelation 2:12

»To the minister of the Church at Pergamum write as follows:« `This is what He who has the sharp, two-edged sword says. I know where you dwell.

Revelation 2:18

»To the minister of the Church at Thyateira write as follows:« `This is what the Son of God says–He who has eyes like a flame of fire, and feet resembling silver-bronze.

Revelation 2:3

And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary.

Revelation 2:8

»To the minister of the Church at Smyrna write as follows:« `This is what the First and the Last says–He who died and has returned to life.

Revelation 3:1

»To the minister of the Church at Sardis write as follows:« `This is what He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says. I know your doings–you are supposed to be alive, but in reality you are dead.

Revelation 3:14

»And to the minister of the Church at Laodicea write as follows:« `This is what the Amen says–the true and faithful witness, the Beginning and Lord of God's Creation.

Revelation 3:7

»To the minister of the Church at Philadelphia write as follows:« `This is what the holy One and the true says –He who has the key of David– He who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open.