1 Thessalonians 5:12
And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
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11Wherefore, encourage one another, and edify one another, as indeed ye are doing.
13and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Cross References
Luke 10:1After these things, the Lord appointed also seventy others, and sent them two and two before him into every city and place where he himself was about to come.
John 4:38I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.
Acts 20:35In all ways I showed you that so laboring ye ought to support 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 Corinthians 12:28God appointed some in the church to be, in the first place, apostles, in the second place, prophets, in the third place, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, those of helping and of governing, divers kinds of tongues. Are all apostles?
1 Corinthians 16:16that ye submit yourselves to such as they are, and to every one that worketh with us, and laboreth.
2 Corinthians 5:9Wherefore we also strive that, whether at home or absent, we may be approved by him.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:12-16
Various Exhortations; Duty towards Fellow-Christians. ( a. d. 51.) 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. 15 See that none… Read the whole commentary →