And to esteem them very highly in love for (d) their work's sake. (8) [And] be at peace among yourselves.
(d) So then, when this reason ceases, then must the honour cease. (8) The maintenance of mutual harmony, is to be especially guarded.
Verse 13. _ESTEEM THEM VERY HIGHLY IN LOVE_] Christian ministers, who preach the _whole truth_, and _labour_ in the word and doctrine, are entitled to more than _respect_; the apostle commands them t...
AND TO ESTEEM THEM VERY HIGHLY IN LOVE - To cherish for them an affectionate regard. The office of a minister of religion demands respect. They who are faithful in that office have a claim on the kind...
V. THE DAY OF THE LORD AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The day of the Lord 1 Thessalonians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations 1 Thessalonians 5:12) 3. Conclusions 1 Thes
SUNDRY COUNSELS AND EXHORTATIONS. 1 Thessalonians 5:12. Christians are urged to respect their leaders. No officers and ministers are mentioned in this epistle, but this verse implies that the Church h...
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11)...
We ask you, brothers, to give due recognition to those who labour among you and to those who preside over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to hold them very highly in love because of the work tha...
ESTEEM. reckon. VERY HIGHLY. Greek. _huperekperissos._ See 1 Thessalonians 3:10 and Ephesians 3:20. FOR THEIR WORK'S SAKE. on account of (App-104. 1 Thessalonians 5:2) the
_and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake_ EXCEEDING HIGHLY (R. V.) the same Greek adverb as in ch. 1 Thessalonians 3:10, the strongest Intensive possible to the language. So deep...
Section VII. Rules for the Sanctified Life. Ch. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 In Section v. (ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12) the _saintship_of his readers supplied the basis and the nerve of the Apostle's char...
§ 10. 1 Thessalonians 5:12-15. The Church’s Internal Discipline The specific ὑστερήματα of this Church’s faith (1 Thessalonians 3:10) are now made good, in ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:1
For ΗΓΕΙΣΘΑΙ, B cop go syrhcl aeth have ηγεισθε—an error partly of itacistic confusion, and partly of misinterpretation. B shows the same trick in 2 Thessalonians 2:2, θροεισθε (-αι); cf. the double a...
ΉΓΕΪΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ (G2233) почитать, уважать (Morris; о примерах использования в папирусах _см._ ММ), ΎΠΕΡΕΚΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΫ́ (G5240) _adv._ чрезвычайно, очень (Moore; _см._ также...
TEXT (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13) 12 BUT WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, TO KNOW THEM THAT LABOR AMONG YOU, AND ARE OVER YOU IN THE LORD, AND ADMONISH YOU; 13 AND TO ESTEEM THEM EXCEEDINGLY HIGHLY IN LOVE FOR...
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. VERY HIGHLY, [ huperekperissou (G5240a)] - 'exceeding abundantly.' FOR THEIR WORK'S SAKE - the high...
THE LORD'S PRESENCE THOSE DROWSING THOSE DROWSING 4 The day of the Lord with its terrors and destruction is not for us. The cry of "peace and security" should not lull us to sleep. We should be on t...
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. FINAL INJUNCTIONS 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the TIME of the Advent (2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3)....
WHEN JESUS CHRIST COMES 1 THE THESSALONIANS _IAN MACKERVOY_ A word list is at the end. It explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 WHEN THE *LORD WILL COME 5:1-11 V1 Now, brothers and s...
VERY HIGHLY IN LOVE. — The original here is difficult; but it seems best, with most good commentators, ancient and modern, to construe “in love” with “esteem,” and to make “very highly” (a very enthus...
CHAPTER 13 RULERS AND RULED 1 Thessalonians 5:12 (R.V.) AT the present moment, one great cause of division among Christian churches is the existence of different forms of Church government. Congrega...
General instructions for the church....
“Regard them with a very special love for their works' sake” (so thorough and important it is). “Be at peace among yourselves” (instead of introducing divisions and disorder by any insubordination or...
“WITHOUT BLAME” AT HIS COMING 1 Thessalonians 5:12 The remainder of the chapter is filled with brief sentences of exhortation, like cablegrams from our Heavenly Captain to his soldiers, who, in the p...
Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son are...
(12) And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; (13) And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at pea...
There is a special interest in examining the epistles to the Thessalonians, more particularly the first, because, in point of fact, it was the earliest of the letters of the apostles; and as the first...
13_With love. _Others render it _by love; _for Paul says _in love_, which, according to the Hebrew idiom, is equivalent to _by _or _with_. I prefer, however, to explain it thus — as meaning that he ex...
The Lord's coming again into this world assumes therefore a very different character from that of a vague object of hope to a believer as a period of glory. In Chapter 5 the apostle speaks of it, but...
AND TO ESTEEM THEM VERY HIGHLY,.... Or, as the Ethiopic version renders it, "honour them abundantly"; for such are worthy of double honour, and to be had in reputation; they should be honourably thoug...
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. _And_ be at peace among yourselves. Ver. 13. _Very highly_] Gr. υπερ εκ περισσου, more than exceeding. _a_ Turks and Papists shall else c...
_We beseech you, brethren, to know_ See, mark, take knowledge of _them_ that, 1st, _Labour among you_ Namely, in the work of the ministry, by preaching, teaching, catechising, visiting the sick, admin...
THEIR WORK'S SAKE; as preachers of the gospel and promoters of your spiritual good. Ministers who take the oversight of churches are not to be esteemed merely or principally on account of their office...
AND TO ESTEEM THEM VERY HIGHLY IN LOVE FOR THEIR WORK'S SAKE. AND BE AT PEACE AMONG YOURSELVES....
CONCLUDING ADMONITIONS AND GREETING. The conduct of Christians toward others:...
In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well a...
V. General Exhortations, 5:12-22 A. Appeal for harmony among Christians, 5:12-15 12 AND WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, TO KNOW THEM WHICH LABOUR AMONG YOU, AND ARE OVER YOU IN THE LORD, AND ADMONISH YOU;...
“AND TO ESTEEM THEM EXCEEDING HIGHLY IN LOVE FOR THEIR WORK'S SAKE. BE AT PEACE AMONG YOURSELVES” “Esteem:”: “To think, to estimate” _(Vincent p. 48)._ “Hold them in special esteem and affection” (Mo...
12-15 The ministers of the gospel are described by the work of their office, which is to serve and honour the Lord. It is their duty not only to give good counsel, but also to warn the flock of dange...
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and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. [Paul here admonishes the church as to how it shall treat its elders. He bids the church recognize their leadership, respect them, an...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third How will you instruct the elect of the Lord, if you yourselves have not instruction? Instruct each other therefore, and be at peace among yourselves, that[41] Clement...
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1 Thessalonians 5:13. TO ESTEEM THEM VERY HIGHLY IN LOVE. There was required not merely an outward deference and submission, but an affectionate regard. Little good can be effected in a church in whic...
AS Paul's custom was, he concludes this Epistle with a number of practical injunctions suitable to the circumstances of those to whom he writes, and more or less connected with one another....
AND TO ESTEEM THEM (κα ηγεισθα). Get acquainted with them and esteem the leaders. The idlers in Thessalonica had evidently refused to follow their leaders in church activities. We need wise leaders...
1 Thessalonians 5:9 I. This passage, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, has its interest and value as showing us that the earliest and the latest of the Pauline Epistles are all at one in regard to the central doct...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night._ It...
CONTENTS: The model walk for the believer. The day of Jehovah. Exhortations to believers. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Let Christians live like men who are awake, living in cons...
1 Thessalonians 5:1. _Of the times and seaso_n _s, ye have no need that I write to you._ Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the churc...
TREAT THEM. Christians were not divided into "clergy" and "laity" at this time. They are to honor evangelists and church leaders because of the work they do. [Note what Christ said in Luke 22:24-27.]...
_We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you _ FAITHFUL MINISTERS WORTHY OF RESPECT I. The particulars upon which this claim for the ministers of Christ is founded. 1. The influen...
1 THESSALONIANS—NOTE ON 1 THESSALONIANS 5:12 RESPECT THOSE WHO LABOR... ADMONISH YOU. The young Thessalonian church was not appreciating and respecting its leaders enough. ARE OVER YOU. The elders in
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Thessalonians 5:12. THEM WHICH LABOUR AMONG YOU AND ARE OVER YOU IN THE LORD.—“A clear testimony, from this earliest New Testament writing, to the existence in the C...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instructed. T...
But of the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace...
1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Corinthians 9:7; 2 Corinthians 13:11;...
Esteem [η γ ε ι σ θ α ι]. Primarily to lead, which is the only sense in the Gospels and Acts, except Acts 26:2, in a speech of Paul. To lead the mind through a reasoning process to a conclusion, and s...
Esteem them very highly — Literally, more than abundantly, in love — The inexpressible sympathy that is between true pastors and their flock is intimated, not only here, but also in divers other place...