Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And to esteem them (kai hgeisqai). Get acquainted with them and esteem the leaders. The idlers in Thessalonica had evidently refused to follow their leaders in church activities. We need wise leadership today, but still more wise following. An army of captains and colonels never won a battle.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Thessalonians 5:13:
Ephesians 3:20
1 Thessalonians 3:10
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