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 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.
• 1 Th 5:12–13But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
• Gal 6:6But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
• 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.
• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
• 2 Tim 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
• Phil 2:29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
• Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
• Acts 28:10They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• 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.
• 1 Cor 9:5–14Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
• Rom 15:27Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
• 1 Cor 16:16that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
• Phil 4:3Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
• Matt 24:25“Behold, I have told you beforehand.
• Rom 16:12Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
• Matt 9:37–38Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
• 1 Tim 4:16Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
• 1 Tim 3:5(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
• 2 Kgs 2:9When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”
• 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
• Acts 11:30which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
• 1 Tim 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
• Heb 13:24Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
• John 4:38I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
• 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.
• Zech 9:12Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
• 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.
• Luke 12:42The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
• 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.’”
• Jer 17:18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• Jer 16:18First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
• Isa 40:2“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
• 1 Tim 5:3Honor widows who are widows indeed.
• 1 Tim 4:6If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

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