1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
KJV
Οἱ καλῶς προεστῶτες πρεσβύτεροι διπλῆς τιμῆς ἀξιούσθωσαν, μάλιστα οἱ κοπιῶντες ἐν λόγῳ καὶ διδασκαλίᾳ·
Greek NT
Qui bene præsunt presbyteri, duplici honore digni habeantur : maxime qui laborant in verbo et doctrina.
Vulgate
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
ASV
Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
διδασκαλία
didaskalia
noun · 21×
διπλοῦς
diplous
adjective · 4×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλῶς
kalos
adverb · 36×
κοπιάω
kopiao
verb · 22×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
μάλιστα
malista
adverb · 12×
πρεσβύτερος
presbuteros
adjective · 67×
προΐστημι
proistemi
verb · 8×
τιμή
time
noun · 41×
ἀξιόω
axioo
verb · 7×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
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Historic Christian voices
12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians · 3 passages
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:9 — For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
- 1Cor 9:5 — Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
- 1Cor 9:14 — Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
- 1Cor 12:28 — And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
- 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 1Cor 16:16 — That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
- 1Thess 2:6 — Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
- 1Thess 5:12 — And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
- 1Thess 5:12 — And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
- 1Tim 3:5 — (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
- 1Tim 4:6 — If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
- 1Tim 4:10 — For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
- 1Tim 4:16 — Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
- 1Tim 5:1 — Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
- 1Tim 5:3 — Honour widows that are widows indeed.
- 2Cor 6:1 — We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- 2Kgs 2:9 — And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy s
- 2Kgs 2:9 — And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy s
- 2Tim 2:6 — The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
- 2Tim 4:2 — Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
- Acts 11:30 — Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
- Acts 11:30 — Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
- Acts 14:23 — And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
- Acts 20:17 — And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
- Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
- Acts 20:35 — I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Acts 28:10 — Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
- Deut 14:27 — And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
- Deut 25:4 — Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
- Gal 6:6 — Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
- Gal 6:6 — Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
- Heb 13:7 — 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.
- Heb 13:17 — 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
- Heb 13:17 — 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
- Heb 13:24 — Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
- Isa 40:2 — Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
- Jer 16:18 — And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
- Jer 17:18 — Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
- John 4:38 — I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
- Luke 10:1 — After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.