1 Thessalonians 5:12 Cross References - Thomson

¹² Now we intreat you, brethren, to consider them who labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and instruct you:

³⁷ Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. ³⁸ Supplicate therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers for his harvest.

¹ After these things, the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them, two and two; before him, to every city and village whither he himself was soon to go; ² and he said to them, The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Entreat therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers for his harvest.

⁷ continue in the same family, eating and drinking such things as they have. For the labourer is worthy of his wages. Go not from one family to another.

³⁸ I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labour. Others have laboured and you have entered on their labours.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves and to the whole flock among which the holy spirit hath made you overseers to tend the congregation of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

³⁵ On all occasions I have suggested to you that you ought thus to labour, and support the indigent, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, "It is a greater happiness to give, than to receive."

⁹ For we are fellow labourers belonging to God; you are God's field; you are his building.

²⁸ whom God hath placed in the congregation; first, apostles, secondly, prophets, thirdly, teachers, then miraculous powers, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, different languages.

¹⁰ But by the favour of God I am what I am; and this favour of his which reached me was not fruitless; but I have laboured more than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹⁶ that you submit yourselves to such, and to every fellow worker and labourer.

¹⁸ For they have quieted my spirit as well as yours. Have regard therefore to such as these.

⁹ and therefore make it the height of our ambition, whether staying or going, to be well pleasing to him.

¹ and cooperating with him, we also exhort you that it may not be in vain that you have received this favour of God.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? [I speak with an excess of folly] I am more so; more abundant in labours; far surpassing in stripes; more frequent in imprisonments, often in deaths.

¹¹ I am afraid for you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

¹⁶ displaying the word of life, that I may have matter of boasting for the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labour in vain,

¹⁹ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy very soon to you, that I may be refreshed by knowing the state of your affairs.

²⁹ for which I indeed labour, and struggle with all my might, according to that energy of his which operateth in me with power.

⁹ For you, brethren, remember our labour and our toil: for working day and night that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we proclaimed to you the glad tidings of God.

¹⁴ And we exhort you, brethren; admonish the disorderly; comfort the desponding; support the weak; exercise forbearance towards all;

¹ Rebuke not an aged man with sharpness; but admonish him as a father; young men, as brothers;

¹⁷ Let the elders who preside well be accounted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in word and doctrine; ¹⁸ for the scripture saith, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn," and, "The labourer is worthy of wages."

²⁰ Them, who sin, rebuke before all, that others may fear.

⁶ The husbandman must labour before he partaketh of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say, and may the

³ and in his own times promulgated as his word, by a proclamation with which I am entrusted, according to the appointment of the saviour our God;

⁵ I left thee in Crete for this purpose that thou mightest regulate what were wanting, and appoint elders in every city as I ordered thee.

¹⁵ Speak these things, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

⁷ Remember your leaders, who spake to you the word of God. Observing carefully the issue of their conduct, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to them [for they are watching over your souls,[as they who must give an account] that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for this would be unprofitable for you.

² Tend the flock of God which is among you, watching over it, not by constraint, but willingly; not with a view to sordid gain, but with a ready mind; ³ not as exercising dominion over the lots, but as being examples to the flock.

²⁰ With respect to the hidden meaning of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks; the seven stars are the angels of the seven congregations and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven congregations.

³ and hast borne and dost exercise patience, and hast laboured for my name's sake, and hast not fainted.

⁸ "And to the angel of the congregation at Smyrna write, "Thus saith the first and the last, who was dead and is alive,

¹² And to the angel of the congregation at Pergamus write, "Thus saith he who hath the sharp two edged sword,

¹⁸ And to the angel of the congregation at Thyatira write, "Thus saith the son of God, whose eyes are like a flame of fire, and whose feet fire like fine brass;

¹ And to the angel of the congregation at Sardis write, "Thus saith he, who hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive, though thou art dead.

⁷ And to the angel of the congregation at Philadelphia write thus saith the Holy one and the True, who hath the key [the Son] of David, who openeth and none shutteth, and who shutteth and none openeth,

¹⁴ "And to the angel of the congregation of the Laodicians write, Thus saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God,