“Elders Who Labour At Teaching Deserve A Double Stipend” I Timothy 5:17: Membership Training Series:
Interlinear Translation: “The well who take the lead elders of double honour let counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching.”
Strong’s Concordance Translation: “LET = to hold fast, have, hold, hold fast, keep, keep in memory, make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold. THE ELDERS = elderly, older, a senior, specially an Israeli Sanhedrist also figuratively member of the celestial council or Christian Presbyter, old. THAT RULE = to stand before, i.e. in rank to preside, or by implication to practise, maintain, be over, rule. WELL = morally well, in a good place, honestly, recover, full well. BE COUNTED WORTHY = to deem entitled or fit, desire, think good, think worthy. DOUBLE = two-fold, two-fold more. HONOUR = a value, i.e. money paid or valuables, by analogy esteem especially of the highest degree or the dignity itself, precious, price, some. ESPECIALLY = very most in the greatest degree or particularly, chiefly, most of all, specially. THEY WHO LABOUR = to feel fatigue, by implication to work hard, bestow, toil, be wearied. IN THE WORD = something said including the thought, by implication a topic, subject of discourse, also reasoning the mental faculty or motive, by extension a computation, account, cause, communication, concerning, doctrine, fame, have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, reckon, remove, saying, speaker, speech, talk, thing, none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work. AND DOCTRINE = instruction the function or the information, learning, teaching.