1 Thessalonians 5:12 Cross References - Haweis

¹² Now we entreat you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

³⁷ Then said he to his disciples, The harvest indeed is abundant, but the labourers are few; ³⁸ entreat therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth workmen for his harvest.

¹ THEN after these things the Lord appointed other seventy persons also, and sent them, two and two before his face, into every city and place, whither he himself designed to go. ² He said therefore unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the labourers few: pray ye therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he would send out labourers into his harvest.

⁷ And in the same family abide, eating and drinking such as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not about from house to house.

³⁸ I have sent you to reap that on which ye have bestowed no labour: others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labour.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed as shepherds the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

⁹ For we are God's fellowlabourers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

²⁸ And these also hath God placed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹⁶ wherefore submit yourselves to such, and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

¹⁸ For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; respect therefore such men.

⁹ wherefore also our ambition is, that whether dwelling in the body, or out of the body, we may be acceptable to him.

¹ WE then as labourers with him, exhort you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

¹¹ I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

¹⁶ holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be refreshed in spirit, when I know your affairs.

²⁹ for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

¹⁴ Now we conjure you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient with all men.

¹ REBUKE not harshly an aged man, but admonish him as a father; the younger men as brethren;

¹⁷ Let the elders who preside properly be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who are laborious in preaching and teaching. ¹⁸ For the Scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox while he treadeth out the corn." And again, "The labourer is worthy of his hire."

²⁰ Those who sin rebuke before all, that the rest also may tremble.

⁶ The husbandman who toils is the first who ought to partake of the fruits.

³ but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;

⁵ For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

¹⁵ These things speak and enjoin, and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

⁷ Remember your presidents, who have spoken to you the word of God: the ultimate issue of whose conduct attentively observing, be imitators of their fidelity.

¹⁷ Obey your presidents, and be subject to them: for they are vigilant for your souls, as being to render an account, that they may do it with joy, and not groaning: for that would be disadvantageous for you.

² feed the flock of God which is among you, exercising your pastoral office not of necessity, but of choice, not for base gain, but with alacrity of mind; ³ not as domineering over your allotted congregations, but as being examples of the flock.

²⁰ the mystery of the seven stars which thou seest in my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamps which thou seest are the seven churches.

³ and hast borne, and hast exercised patience, and for my name sake hast endured great toil, and hast not fainted.

⁸ And to the angel of the church of the Smyrnians write, These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and is alive:

¹² And to the angel of the church at Pergamos write, These things saith he who holdeth the sharp two-edged sword;

¹⁸ And to the angel of the church which is at Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like the molten brass;

¹ AND to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, and that thou hast a name, as though thou wert alive, yet art dead.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things saith the Holy One, he that is true, who hath the key of David, who openeth, and none shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth.

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of the creation of God;