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1 Thessalonians 5:12
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1 Thessalonians 5:12
12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are ouer you in the Lord, and admonish you:
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Thessalonians 5:12
To ask earnestly; to implore, entreat, or plead with.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Brothers; near kindred; fellow Israelites; or fellow believers, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To warn, counsel, or reprove.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study17Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
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Open the full verse study7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
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Open the full verse study17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
18For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
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Open the full verse study18For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
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Open the full verse study16That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
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Open the full verse study10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon 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.
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Open the full verse study3But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
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Open the full verse study9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
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Open the full verse study14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
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Open the full verse study28¶ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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Open the full verse study28And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
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Open the full verse study6The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
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Open the full verse study35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Open the full verse study7And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
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Open the full verse study16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Open the full verse study23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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Open the full verse study9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
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Open the full verse study1WE then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
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Open the full verse study29Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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Open the full verse study11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
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Open the full verse study5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
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Open the full verse study38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
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Open the full verse study1AFTER these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
2Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
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Open the full verse study37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
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Open the full verse study12And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
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Open the full verse study18And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
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Open the full verse study3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
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Open the full verse study8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
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Open the full verse study1AND unto 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, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
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Open the full verse study14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
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Open the full verse study7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
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Open the full verse study15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
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Open the full verse study2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
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Open the full verse study9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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Open the full verse study1REBUKE not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
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Open the full verse study20Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
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Open the full verse study19But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
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