1 Thessalonians 5:12
We beg you, friends, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord’s service, and give you counsel.
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Luke 10:1After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit.
John 4:38I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have reaped the results of their labor.”
Acts 20:35I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself – ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
1 Corinthians 12:28In the church God has appointed, first, apostles, secondly preachers, thirdly teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of ‘tongues.’
1 Corinthians 16:16I want you, on your part, to show deference to such people as these, as well as to every fellow laborer and earnest worker.
2 Corinthians 5:9Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please 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 →