be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.
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