1 Thessalonians 5:12 Cross References - Coverdale

¹² We beseke you brethren, that ye knowe them which laboure amonge you, and haue the ouersighte of you in the LORDE,

³⁷ Then sayde he to hys disciples: ye heruest is greate, but ye laborers are fewe. ³⁸ Wherfore praye the LORDE of the haruest, to sende forth laborers into hys haruest.

¹ Afterwarde the LORDE appoynted out other seuentie, and sent them two and two before him in to euery cite and place, whither he himself wolde come, ² and sayde vnto them: The haruest is greate, but the labourers are fewe. Praye therfore the LORDE of the haruest, to sende forth labourers in to his haruest.

⁷ But tary ye still in the same house, eatinge aud drynkinge soch as they haue. For the labourer is worthy of his rewarde.Go not from house to house.

³⁸ I haue sent you to reape that, wheron ye bestowed no laboure. Other haue laboured, and ye are come in to their laboures.

²⁸ Take hede therfore vnto youre selues, and to all the flocke, amonge the which the holy goost hath set you to be Bishoppes, to fede the congregacion of God, which he hath purchaced thorow his owne bloude.

³⁵ I haue shewed you all thinges, how that so labouringe ye oughte to receaue the weake, and to remembre the worde of the LORDE, how that he sayde: It is more blessed to geue, then to receaue.

⁹ For we are Gods labourers, ye are Gods hussbandry, ye are Gods buyldinge.

²⁸ And God hath ordeyned in the congregacion, first the Apostles, secodly prophetes, thirdly teachers, then doers of miracles, after that the giftes of healinge, helpers, gouerners, dyuerse tunges.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace in me hath not bene vayne, but I haue laboured more then they all: howbeit not I but the grace of God which is wt me.

¹⁶ I exhorte you to be obedient vnto soche, and to all that helpe and laboure.

¹⁸ they haue refresshed my sprete and youres. Knowe them therfore that are soch.

⁹ Wherfore, whether we be at home or fro home, we endeuoure oure selues to please him.

¹ We as helpers therfore exhorte you, that ye receaue not ye grace of God in vayne.

²³ They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft.

¹¹ I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed laboure on you in vayne.

¹⁶ holdinge fast the worde of life, vnto my reioysinge in the daye of Christ, that I haue not runne in vayne, nether laboured in vayne.

¹⁹ I trust in the LORDE Iesus, to sende Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also maye be of good comforte, whan I knowe what case ye stonde in.

²⁹ Wherin I also laboure, and stryue acordinge to the workynge of him which worketh mightely in me.

⁹ Ye remembre brethren oure laboure and trauayle. For daye and nighte wroughte we (because we wolde not be chargeable vnto eny of you) and preached the Gospell of God amonge you.

¹⁴ We desyre you brethre, warne them that are vnruly, coforte the feble mynded, forbeare the weake, be pacient towarde all men.

¹ Rebuke not an Elder, but exhorte him as a father: and the yoger men as brethren:

¹⁷ The Elders that rule well, are worthy of double honoure, most specially they which laboure in the worde & in teachinge. ¹⁸ For ye scripture sayeth: Thou shalt not mosell the mouth of ye oxe yt treadeth out ye corne. And: The labourer is worthy of his rewarde.

²⁰ The that synne, rebuke in the presence of all, that other also maye feare.

⁶ The hussbandman that laboureth, must first enioye the frutes.

³ but at his tyme hath opened his worde thorow preachinge, which is commytted vnto me acordinge to the commaundemet of God oure Sauioure.

⁵ For this cause left I the in Creta, that thou shuldest perfourme that which was lackynge, and shuldest ordeyne Elders in euery cite, as I appoynted ye.

¹⁵ These thinges speake and exhorte, and rebuke with all earnest. Se that no man despyse the.

⁷ Remembre the which haue the ouersighte of you, which haue declared vnto you the worde of God. The ende of whose couersacion se that ye loke vpon, and folowe their faith.

¹⁷ Obey them that haue the ouersighte off you, and submytte youre selues vnto them: for they watch for youre soules, euen as they that must geue accoptes therfore, that they maye do it with ioye, and not with grefe: for that is an vnprofitable thinge for you.

² Fede Christes flocke which is amonge you, and take the ouersighte of the, not as though ye were copelled therto, but wyllingly: not for the desyre of filthye lucre, but of a good mynde: ³ not as though ye were lordes ouer the parishes, but that ye be an ensample to the flocke:

²⁰ & the mistery of the seuen starres which thou sawest in my right honde, and the seuen golden candelstickes. The seuen starres are the angels of the seue congregacions: And the seuen candelstyckes which thou sawest, are the seuen congregacions.

³ and hast suffred. And hast paciece: and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not faynted.

⁸ And vnto the angell of the congregacion of Smyrna wryte: These thinges saith he that is fyrst, and the last, which was deed, and is aliue:

¹² And to the angell of the congregacion in Pergamos wryte: This sayth he which hath the sharpe swearde with two edges:

¹⁸ And vnto the angell of the cogregacion of Theatira write: This saith the sonne of God, which hath his eyes lyke vnto a flame of fyre, whose fete are like brasse:

¹ And wryte vnto the angell of the congregacion off Sardis: this sayth he that hath the seuen spretes of God, & the seuen starres. I knowe thy workes, thou hast a name that thou lyuest, and thou art deed.

⁷ And wryte vnto ye angell of the cogregacio of Philadelphia: this sayth he yt is holy and true, which hath the keye of Dauid: which openyth and noman shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.

¹⁴ And vnto the angell of the cogregacion, which is in Laodicia wryte: This sayth Amen the faithfull and true witnes, the begynnynge of ye creatures of God.