1 Timothy 5:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.”
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“Elders who lead effectively are worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Timothy 5:17 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 18:31And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
- Deuteronomy 18:8They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
- 2 Kings 2:9After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
- Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
- Jeremiah 16:18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
- Jeremiah 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
- Zechariah 9:12Return to your stronghold,O prisoners of hope;even today I declarethat I will restore to you double.
- Matthew 9:37Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
- Matthew 24:25See, I have told you in advance.
- Luke 10:1After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.
- Luke 10:7Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
- Luke 12:42And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?
- John 4:38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
- Acts 11:30This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Barnabas and Saul.
- Acts 20:35In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
- Acts 28:10The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.
- Romans 12:8if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
- Romans 15:27They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.
- Romans 16:12Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- 1 Corinthians 9:5Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
- 1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
- 1 Corinthians 16:16to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
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