1 THESSALONIANS 5:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.”
And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves — the leaders deserve honor not for their status but 'because of their work.' 'Be at peace among yourselves' (eirēneuo) is the fruit of honoring leadership. Harmony requires recognizing those called to govern.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 5:13
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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