If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats near the shepherds’ tents.
Hebrews 13:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Remember your leaders and superiors in authority [for it was they] who brought to you the Word of God. Observe attentively and consider their manner of living (the outcome of their well-spent lives) and imitate their faith (their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider and Bestower of eternal salvation through Christ, and their leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness). American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Remember your leaders who spoke God’s word to you. Imitate their faith as you consider the way their lives turned out. Catholic Public Domain Version Remember your leaders, who have spoken the Word of God to you, whose faith you imitate, by observing the goal of their way of life: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, |
If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats near the shepherds’ tents.
‘Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?
The Lord said, ‘Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?
As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God’s word, he was standing by Lake Gennesaret. ,
Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, ‘It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.
When they had appointed elders for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly.
So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ. ,
No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.
Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us.
and you yourselves became imitators of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit.
This is why we constantly thank God, because when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you welcomed it not as a human message, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also works effectively in you who believe.
For you yourselves know how you should imitate us: We were not idle among you;
It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.
(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)
Obey your leaders and submit to them, since they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who are from Italy send you greetings.
so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.
If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
I, John, your brother and partner in the affliction, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given. ,