Hebrews 13:17
Follow your leaders and yield to them. They stay awake watching over your souls, as people who will have to answer for them. Make it possible for them to do this with joy instead of sighing, since that would bring you no gain.
Treated in 15 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Dietrich Bonhoeffer — The Pastor Who Counted the Cost cites Hebrews 13:17
…so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you” (Hebrews 13:17, NIV). He gave his congregation reason for confidence by being the kind of shepherd…
- Men Who Tended the Flock ·
Scripture Appendix: God’s Word on the Pastoral Calling cites Hebrews 13:17
…though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.” Hebrews 13:17 — “Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch…
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
Accountability cites Hebrews 13:17
…to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account" (Hebrews 13:17). A man who will not submit to any spiritual authority on earth is a law unto himself —…
- Rise Up, Men of God ·
Men in the Church cites Hebrews 13:17
…so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you" (Hebrews 13:17). Your pastor is a man like you, with his own struggles. He needs your prayers, your…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
The Church and the Body of Christ cites Hebrews 13:17
…It is a community of people who relinquish selfish insistence for the sake of Christ. Hebrews 13:17 also calls believers to obey leaders who watch for souls. But all church authority is…
- Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee ·
Appendix a: Twenty-Five Core Teachings of Watchman Nee cites Hebrews 13:17
…that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls” (Hebrews 13:17, ASV). But biblical submission has boundaries. The apostles disobeyed authorities who…
- The Key Teachings of Ignatius of Antioch ·
Do Nothing Without the Bishop cites HEBREWS 13:17
…souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief. HEBREWS 13:17 No theme in Ignatius’s letters is pressed harder than obedience to the bishop, and none…
- Portraits of Courage – C. T. Studd ·
The Committee cites Hebrews 13:17
…Christians to submit to those who lead them, “for they watch in behalf of your souls” (Hebrews 13:17, ASV). Studd had spent his life leading and never learned to be led. In 1931 the cost of…
- Portraits of Courage – C. T. Studd ·
Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Hebrews 13:17
…showed the danger of vision without accountability. Scriptures to revisit Proverbs 11:14; Hebrews 13:17; Philippians 1:15-18. Reflection 1. Who was right in 1931, and why is that hard to say?…
- The Key Teachings of John Bunyan ·
Christiana and the Weak Pilgrims cites HEBREWS 13:17
…and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account. HEBREWS 13:17 Great-heart is Bunyan’s portrait of the pastor as protector. He is strong, patient…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
The Reformed Pastor cites HEBREWS 13:17
…and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account. HEBREWS 13:17 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning …his…
- Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards ·
A Farewell Sermon cites Heb. xiii. 17
…returns again, and gives his master an account of his conduct and success. So we read, in Heb. xiii. 17, of ministers being rulers in the house of God, “that watch for souls, as those that must…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
On Obedience to Pastors cites Heb. 13:17
…that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: For that is unprofitable for you.” Heb. 13:17. 1. Exceeding few, not only among nominal Christians, but among truly religious men, have…
- Holiness ·
Unsearchable Riches cites Heb. xiii. 17
…responsibility! We watch for souls “as those who must give account” at the judgment day. (Heb. xiii. 17.) If souls are lost through unfaithfulness, their blood will be required at our hands. If…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 9 — Of Councils and Their Authority cites Heb. 13:17
…the word of the Lord remains, which commands us to obey those who have the rule over us (Heb. 13:17). Is it indeed so? What if I should deny that those who act thus have the rule over us?…