1 THESSALONIANS 5:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;”
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you — the community leaders labor (kopiaō) among them and are positioned 'over you in the Lord' (proistēmi). Respect (perissos, overflowing) is their due; their admonishment (noutheteo, to counsel) is not mere opinion but pastoral authority.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:12
It must needs happen that a ruler should have many occasions of enmities. As physicians are compelled to give much trouble to the sick, preparing for them both diet and medicines that are not pleasant indeed, but attended with benefit; and as fathers are often annoying to their children: so also are teachers, and much more. For the physician, though he be odious to the sick man, yet has the relations and friends on good terms with him, nay, and often the sick man himself. And…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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