1 Thessalonians 5:12
Good News Translation
We beg you, our friends, to pay proper respect to those who work among you, who guide and instruct you in the Christian life.

New Revised Standard Version
But we appeal to you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who labor among you, and have charge of you in the Lord and admonish you;

Contemporary English Version
My friends, we ask you to be thoughtful of your leaders who work hard and tell you how to live for the Lord.

New American Bible
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who are laboring among you and who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you;

to know.

1 Corinthians 16:18 For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them, therefore, that are such.

Philippians 2:19 And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning you.

Hebrews 13:7,17 Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, . . .

labour.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

Matthew 9:37,38 Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. . . .

Luke 10:1,2,7 And after these things, the Lord appointed also other seventy-two. And he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come. . . .

John 4:38 I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

Acts 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

1 Corinthians 16:16 That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

2 Corinthians 5:9 And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

2 Corinthians 6:1 And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 Corinthians 11:23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you.

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Colossians 1:29 Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

1 Timothy 5:17,18 Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. . . .

2 Timothy 2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must first partake of the fruits.

Revelation 2:3 And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted.

and are.

Acts 20:28 Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.

1 Corinthians 12:28 And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the graces of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, interpretations of speeches.

Titus 1:5 For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

Hebrews 13:7,17 Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, . . .

1 Peter 5:2,3 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily: . . .

Revelation 1:20 The mystery 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 churches. And the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.

Revelation 2:1,8,12,18 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: . . .

Revelation 3:1,7,14 And to the angel of the church of 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 the name of being alive. And thou art dead. . . .

and admonish.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

1 Timothy 5:1,20 An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, as brethren: . . .

Titus 1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

Titus 2:15 These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Context
Christian Living
11For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do. 12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you; 13That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them.…
Cross References
Romans 16:6
Salute Mary, who hath laboured much among you.

Romans 16:12
Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

1 Corinthians 16:16
That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

1 Corinthians 16:18
For they have refreshed both my spirit and yours. Know them, therefore, that are such.

1 Thessalonians 4:1
For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

1 Timothy 5:17
Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Hebrews 13:17
Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
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