Hebrews 13:17

Believers should obey and submit to their leaders, who watch over their souls and will give account to God. Joyful, willing submission benefits the whole community.

Cross-references · 34

• 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,
• 1 Tim 5:17Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• 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;
• 1 Cor 16:16that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
• Jer 13:17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock is taken captive.
• Ezek 33:7–9So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
• Ezek 3:17–21“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
• Phil 2:12So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
• Exod 32:31Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
• Phil 2:29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,
• 2 Cor 5:10–11For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
• Rom 14:12So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
• 1 Cor 4:1–2So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
• 1 Th 2:19–20For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
• 2 Th 3:14If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
• 1 Sam 15:19–20Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”
• Heb 13:24Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
• Phil 4:1Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
• Isa 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
• Phil 3:18For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
• 1 Sam 8:19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,
• Phil 1:4always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy,
• Luke 16:2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
• Prov 5:13neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
• Jas 4:7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Gen 16:9Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
• 1 Th 3:9–10For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
• Acts 20:24–26But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
• 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.
• Ezek 33:2Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;
• Eph 5:21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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