12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
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Obey 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.
Remember 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.
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. …
For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-15)In these words the apostle exhorts the Thessalonians to several duties. I. Towards those who were nearly related one to another. Such should comfort themselves, or exhort one another, and edify one another, 1 Thess. 5:11. 1. They must comfort or exhort themselves and one another; for the original word may be rendered both these ways. And we may observe, As those are most able and likely to comfort…
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