Hebrews 13:7

¹²But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, ¹³and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

¹⁷Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

¹⁷Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

¹²that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

⁶You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹³For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.

²³When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.

⁴⁵“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

⁵(for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?)

³¹When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.