and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
Parallel translations
- WEB and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
- KJV And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
- BSB In love, hold them in highest regard because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
- NASB and that you regard them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
- NLT Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other.
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Leaders are to be esteemed highly in love because of their work, and the congregation is to live at peace together.
Overview
Paul calls for warm, love-rooted respect for leaders, grounded not in personality but in the value of their gospel work. Honoring faithful leaders and pursuing peace within the body go hand in hand, since disorder often arises where leadership is despised. A church united under Christ's appointed shepherds reflects the peace that the Prince of Peace secures for His people.
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- Mark 9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
- Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
- Gal 6:6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
- John 13:34–35A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
- 1 Cor 9:7–11What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
- Jas 3:18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- 1 Cor 4:1–2So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
- Eph 4:3being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
- Ps 133:1A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
- Rom 4:17–19As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Gal 4:14That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Luke 7:3–5When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
- Gen 45:24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
- 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
- Matt 10:40He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
- Col 3:15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
- John 15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
- 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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