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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
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Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.
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1 Timothy 5 17-1 Timothy 5 18
Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.For the scripture says,“ Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and,“ The worker deserves his pay.”
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1 Corinthians 16 18
For they refreshed my spirit and yours. So then, recognize people like this.
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1 Corinthians 16 16
also to submit to people like this, and to everyone who cooperates in the work and labors hard.
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Titus 1:3
But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.
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1 Corinthians 15 10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
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Luke 10:7
Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.
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Colossians 1:29
Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.
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2 Corinthians 6 1
Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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Philippians 2:16
by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
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1 Corinthians 3 9
We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.
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Titus 1:5
The reason I left you in Crete was to set in order the remaining matters and to appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
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Revelation 3:14
“ To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation:
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Revelation 1:20-2:1
The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.“ To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who has a firm grasp on the seven stars in his right hand– the one who walks among the seven golden lampstands:
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Revelation 2:18
“ To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze:
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Revelation 3:7
“ To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:
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Acts 20:28
Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
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Revelation 2:12
“ To the angel of the church in Pergamum write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who has the sharp double- edged sword:
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Luke 10:1-2
After this the Lord appointed seventy- two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.He said to them,“ The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.
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2 Corinthians 11 23
Are they servants of Christ?( I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
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1 Thessalonians 2 9
For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
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2 Timothy 2 6
The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.
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2 Corinthians 5 9
So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.
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Revelation 2:8
“ To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:
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Acts 20:35
By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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Revelation 3:1
“ To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following:“ This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars:‘ I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead.
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1 Thessalonians 5 14
And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.
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1 Peter 5 2-1 Peter 5 3
Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.And do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.
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Galatians 4:11
I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.
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Matthew 9:37-38
Then he said to his disciples,“ The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”
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Revelation 2:3
I am also aware that you have persisted steadfastly, endured much for the sake of my name, and have not grown weary.
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1 Corinthians 12 28
And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.
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1 Timothy 5 1
Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,
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John 4:38
I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
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1 Timothy 5 20
Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.
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Titus 2:15
So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don’t let anyone look down on you.
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Philippians 2:19
Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.
