1 Thessalonians 5:12

Paul urges the church to recognize and value those who labor among them as leaders and instruct them in the Lord.

Cross-references · 38

• Heb 13:17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
• 1 Tim 5:17–18Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
• 1 Cor 16:18For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.
• 1 Cor 16:16that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Titus 1:3but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• Luke 10:7Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.
• Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• Phil 2:16holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
• 2 Tim 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
• 1 Cor 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
• 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• 2 Cor 5:9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
• Titus 1:5I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
• Rev 1:20the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Gal 4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
• Luke 10:1–2Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
• Rev 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• Rev 2:12“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
• Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
• Rev 3:14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Titus 2:15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
• Matt 9:37–38Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
• John 4:38I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
• Rev 2:18“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
• Phil 2:19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
• 1 Tim 5:1Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
• 1 Tim 5:20Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
• 1 Th 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
• 1 Pet 5:2–3Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

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