1 Timothy 5:17

Elders who lead well deserve double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. The church should esteem and materially support faithful leaders.

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• Heb 13:17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.
• 1 Th 5:12–13But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who preside over you in the Lord and give you instruction.
• Gal 6:6Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word must share in all good things with his instructor.
• Luke 10:7Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
• 2 Tim 2:6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
• Phil 2:29Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
• Rom 12:8if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
• Acts 28:10The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.
• 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• Luke 10:1–2After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.
• 1 Cor 9:5–14Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
• Rom 15:27They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.
• 1 Cor 16:16to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
• Phil 4:3Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.
• Matt 24:25See, I have told you in advance.
• Rom 16:12Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.
• Matt 9:37–38Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
• 1 Tim 4:16Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
• 1 Tim 3:5For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
• 2 Kgs 2:9After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
• 2 Tim 4:2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.
• Acts 11:30This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Barnabas and Saul.
• 1 Tim 4:10To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
• Heb 13:24Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.
• John 4:38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
• Zech 9:12Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
• Phil 2:16as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
• Luke 12:42And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?
• Acts 20:35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• Jer 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
• Jer 16:18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
• Isa 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
• 1 Tim 5:3Honor the widows who are truly widows.
• 1 Tim 4:6By pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound instruction that you have followed.

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