1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we intreat you, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you, and standing before you in the Lord, and admonishing you;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
11Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.
Cross References
Luke 10:1After these things the Lord chose seventy others also, and sent them out two by two before His face, into every place and city, where He was about to come.
John 4:38I have sent you to reap that upon which you have never labored: others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
Acts 20:35I have shown you all things, that it so behooveth you laboring to assist the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
1 Corinthians 12:28Whom God has, indeed, also placed in the church, first apostles, then prophets, then teachers, then dynamites, then gifts of healings, helps, leaderships, kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 16:16in order that you may indeed be in subjection unto such, and to every one laboring with you and toiling.
2 Corinthians 5:9Therefore we are truly ambitious, whether being present or absent, to be well pleasing unto 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 →