Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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Hebrews 13:24
Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
1 Corinthians 12:28
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
1 Timothy 3:5
(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)
Ephesians 4:11
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Mark 13:34
“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
Mark 13:37
What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”
Luke 12:42
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
1 Corinthians 4:2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
2 Timothy 4:5
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
James 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
1 Peter 4:5
They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Ezekiel 3:19
Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”
Ezekiel 3:20
“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Ezekiel 3:21
Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”
Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman sees the sword come and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
Ezekiel 33:8
When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.
Ezekiel 33:9
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
Song of Solomon 5:7
The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.
Acts 20:30
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Ezekiel 33:2
“Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman,
Isaiah 52:8
Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”
Ezekiel 34:10
The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”
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1 Peter 5:1
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
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1 Corinthians 16:16
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
Ephesians 5:21
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
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Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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