Luke 10:7 Study Bible: Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.

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Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

Study Bible

Stay at the same house
This phrase emphasizes the importance of stability and contentment in the mission of the disciples. The Greek word for "stay" is "μένω" (menō), which means to remain or abide. This instruction reflects a call to build genuine relationships and avoid the temptation of seeking better accommodations or more favorable conditions. Historically, this would have been a counter-cultural directive, as hospitality was a significant aspect of ancient Near Eastern culture. By staying in one house, the disciples would demonstrate humility and gratitude, fostering deeper connections with their hosts.

Eating and drinking whatever they give you
The phrase underscores the principle of accepting hospitality graciously. The Greek words "ἐσθίω" (esthiō) for eating and "πίνω" (pinō) for drinking suggest a sense of participation and fellowship. In the historical context, sharing a meal was a sign of acceptance and peace. This instruction also implies a level of trust in God's provision through the generosity of others. It encourages the disciples to focus on their mission rather than dietary preferences or cultural differences, promoting unity and breaking down barriers.

For the worker is worthy of his wages
This phrase highlights the principle of fair compensation for labor. The Greek word "ἄξιος" (axios) means worthy or deserving, and "μισθός" (misthos) refers to wages or reward. This teaching aligns with the broader biblical principle that those who labor, especially in ministry, should be supported by those who benefit from their work. Historically, this reflects the practice of itinerant preachers and teachers being supported by the communities they served. It underscores the value of the work being done and the responsibility of the community to provide for those who minister to them.

Do not move around from house to house
This instruction reinforces the earlier command to stay in one place. The Greek phrase "μεταβαίνω" (metabainō) means to move or change location. By advising against moving from house to house, Jesus is teaching the disciples to avoid seeking better accommodations or more influential hosts. This promotes a spirit of contentment and integrity, ensuring that the focus remains on the mission rather than personal comfort or social status. It also prevents the potential for misunderstandings or conflicts within the community, fostering peace and stability.

Persons / Places / Events

1. Jesus Christ
The speaker of this verse, providing instructions to His disciples as He sends them out on a mission.

2. The Disciples
The immediate audience of Jesus' instructions, tasked with spreading the message of the Kingdom of God.

3. The Houses
Represents the homes of those who would receive the disciples, offering hospitality and support.

4. The Mission
The broader context of Jesus sending out the seventy-two disciples to preach and heal in His name.

5. The Towns and Villages
The locations where the disciples were sent to minister and proclaim the Gospel.

Teaching Points

Dependence on God's Provision
Jesus instructs His disciples to rely on the hospitality of others, teaching us to trust in God's provision through the community of believers.

Contentment and Stability
The command to remain in the same house encourages contentment and stability, rather than seeking better accommodations or more favorable conditions.

The Value of Ministry Work
The phrase "the worker is worthy of his wages" highlights the value and dignity of ministry work, reminding us to support those who labor in the Gospel.

Hospitality as a Ministry
Those who offer hospitality play a crucial role in the mission of the Church, showing that every believer can contribute to the work of the Kingdom.

Integrity in Ministry
By not moving from house to house, the disciples were to maintain integrity and avoid the appearance of greed or favoritism.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does Jesus' instruction to "remain in the same house" challenge our modern views on contentment and material comfort?

2. In what ways can we, as a church community, better support those who are laboring in ministry today?

3. How does the principle that "the worker is worthy of his wages" apply to both spiritual and secular work environments?

4. What role does hospitality play in the mission of the Church, and how can we practice it more effectively in our own lives?

5. How can we ensure that our ministry efforts are characterized by integrity and a focus on serving others rather than personal gain?

Connections to Other Scriptures

1 Timothy 5:18
This verse echoes the principle that "the worker is worthy of his wages," reinforcing the idea that those who labor in ministry deserve support.

Matthew 10:10
Similar instructions are given to the twelve apostles, emphasizing reliance on God's provision through the hospitality of others.

1 Corinthians 9:14
Paul discusses the right of those who preach the Gospel to receive their living from the Gospel, aligning with the principle in Luke 10:7.

Deuteronomy 25:4
The Old Testament law about not muzzling an ox while it treads out the grain, which is used metaphorically in the New Testament to support the idea of fair compensation for labor.

Sermons

Our Due	W. Clarkson	Luke 10:7
The Mission of the Seventy	R.M. Edgar	Luke 10:1-24
Christian Courtesy!	A. Mackennal, D. D.	Luke 10:5-7
Christ's First Message is Peace	A. Farindon, D. D.	Luke 10:5-7
Deferred Remuneration		Luke 10:5-7
Fireside Ministry	J. Clifford, D. D.	Luke 10:5-7
Ministers Badly Paid	Henry Varley.	Luke 10:5-7
Only Souls Can Save Souls	J. Clifford, D. D.	Luke 10:5-7
Proclaim Peace		Luke 10:5-7
The Work and Success of the Ministry	Matthew Henry.	Luke 10:5-7

People

Jesus, Martha, Mary

Places

Bethsaida, Capernaum, Chorazin, Jericho, Jerusalem, Road to Jerusalem, Sidon, Sodom, Tyre

Topics

Abide, Deserves, Drink, Drinking, Eating, Hire, Laborer, Labourer, Move, Moving, Provide, Remove, Reward, Stay, Table, Taking, Wages, Whatever, Worker, Workman, Worthy

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Luke 10:7

     5404   masters
     5522   servants, work conditions
     5603   wages
     5699   guests
     5876   helpfulness
     5974   value
     7943   ministry, in church

Luke 10:1-12

2012 Christ, authority
7953 mission, of church

Luke 10:3-8

7760 preachers, responsibilities

Luke 10:5-7

5339 home

Library

Definiteness of Purpose in Christian Work
TEXT: "Salute no man by the way."--Luke 10:4. Luke is the only one of the Evangelists giving us the account of the sending out of the seventy. The others tell us that Christ called certain men unto him and commissioned them to tell his story; but in this instance after Jesus had said, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head," he calls the seventy and sends them forth prepared to endure any sacrifice or suffer any affliction if only …
J. Wilbur Chapman—And Judas Iscariot

October 28 Evening
The Enemy.--LUKE 10:19. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.--Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

June 14 Evening
Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things.--LUKE 10:41. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap. Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not. Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. Your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. Having food and raiment let us be therewith content . . . They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

January 9 Evening
One thing is needful.--LUKE 10:42. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.--O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

March 8. "Pray Ye Therefore" (Luke x. 2).
"Pray Ye therefore" (Luke x. 2). Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth laborers into His harvest." We are asking God to touch the hearts of men every day by the Holy Ghost, so that they shall be compelled to go abroad and preach the Gospel. We are asking Him to wake them up at night with the solemn conviction that the heathen are perishing, and that their blood will be upon their souls, and God is answering …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

The Good Samaritan
LUKE x. 33, 34. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. No words, perhaps, ever spoken on earth, have had more effect than those of this parable. They are words of power and of spirit; living words, which have gone forth into the hearts and lives of men, and borne fruit in them of a hundred …
Charles Kingsley—Discipline and Other Sermons

The Tables Turned: the Questioners Questioned
'But when the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, and saying, 36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38. This is the first and great commandment. 39. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40. …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Christ's Messengers: their Equipment and Work
'After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before His face into every city and place whither He Himself would come. 2. Therefore said He unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest. 3. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes; and salute no man by the way. 5. And into whatsoever …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Neighbours Far Off
'And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26. He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27. And he, answering, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. 28. And He said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. 29. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions Of Holy Scripture

Sanctification
SANCTIFICATION [1] St Luke x. 42.--"One thing is needful." I have read many writings both of heathen philosophers and inspired prophets, ancient and modern, and have sought earnestly to discover what is the best and highest quality whereby man may approach most nearly to union with God, and whereby he may most resemble the ideal of himself which existed in God, before God created men. And after having thoroughly searched these writings as far as my reason may penetrate, I find no higher quality than …
Johannes Eckhart—Meister Eckhart's Sermons

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 16, "He that Rejecteth You Rejecteth Me. "
1. What our Lord Jesus Crist at that time spake to His disciples was put in writing, and prepared for us to hear. And so we have heard His words. For what profit would it be to us if He were seen, and were not heard? And now it is no hurt, that He is not seen, and yet is heard. He saith then, "He that despiseth you, despiseth Me." [3300] If to the Apostles only He said, "He that despiseth you, despiseth Me;" do ye despise us. But if His word reach to us, and He hath called us, and set us in their …
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 2, "The Harvest Truly is Plenteous," Etc.
1. By the lesson of the Gospel which has just been read, we are reminded to search what that harvest is of which the Lord says, "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest." [3262] Then to His twelve disciples, whom He also named Apostles, He added other seventy-two, and sent them all, as appears from His words, to the harvest then ready. What then was that harvest? For that harvest was not among these …
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, "And a Certain Woman Named Martha Received Him into Her House," Etc.
1. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ which have just been read out of the Gospel, give us to understand, that there is some one thing for which we must be making, when we toil amid the manifold engagements of this life. Now we make for this as being yet in pilgrimage, and not in our abiding place; as yet in the way, not yet in our country; as yet in longing, not yet in enjoyment. Yet let us make for it, and that without sloth and without intermission, that we may some time be able to reach it. 2. …
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

Again, on the Words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, Etc. , About Martha and Mary.
1. When the holy Gospel was being read, we heard that the Lord was received by a religious woman into her house, and her name was Martha. And while she was occupied in the care of serving, her sister Mary was sitting at the Lord's Feet, and hearing His Word. The one was busy, the other was still; one was giving out, the other was being filled. Yet Martha, all busy as she was in that occupation and toil of serving, appealed to the Lord, and complained of her sister, that she did not help her in her …
Saint Augustine—sermons on selected lessons of the new testament

On Dissipation
"This I speak -- that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction." 1 Cor. 7:35. 1. Almost in every part of our nation, more especially in the large and populous towns, we hear a general complaint among sensible persons, of the still increasing dissipation. It is observed to diffuse itself more and more, in the court, the city, and the country. From the continual mention which is made of this, and the continual declamations against it, one would naturally imagine that a word so commonly used …
John Wesley—Sermons on Several Occasions

The one Thing Needful
The mere posture of sitting down and listening to the Saviour's word was nothing in itself: it was that which it indicated. It indicated, in Mary's case, a readiness to believe what the Saviour taught, to accept and to obey--nay to delight in, the precepts which fell from his lips. And this is the one thing needful--absolutely needful; for no rebel can enter the kingdom of heaven with the weapons of rebellion in his hands. We cannot know Christ while we resist Christ: we must be reconciled to his …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871

The Good Samaritan
(Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.) S. LUKE x. 30. "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves." The scene of the parable is a wild, lonely road between Jerusalem and Jericho. It is a road with an evil name for murder and robbery, and is called the red, or bloody way. The mishap of the traveller was common enough in our Lord's day, and is common enough now. But I would take the scene of this parable in a wider sense; I would ask you to look at it as the wayside of …
H. J. Wilmot-Buxton—The Life of Duty, a Year's Plain Sermons, v. 2

Zeal.
13th Sunday after Trinity. S. Luke x., 23. "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" INTRODUCTION.--The Kingdom of Heaven, said our Lord, is like unto a treasure hid in a field. One day a man is turning over the stones which lie in a heap in a corner of the field, and he finds under them an iron chest, and this chest he believes to be full of gold. Then he carefully covers it up again with stones and earth, and goes off in the greatest excitement to the owner of the field, and offers him a price, …
S. Baring-Gould—The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent

Lorimer -- the Fall of Satan
George C. Lorimer was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1838. He was brought up by his stepfather who was associated with the theater, and in this relation he received a dramatic education and had some experience on the stage. In 1855 he came to the United States, where he joined the Baptist Church and abandoned the theatrical profession. Later he studied for the Baptist ministry, being ordained in 1859. He died in 1904. His direct and dramatic, pulpit style brought him into great popularity in Boston, …
Grenville Kleiser—The world's great sermons, Volume 8

Question on the Religious State
Are Contemplative Orders superior to Active Orders? Are Contemplative Orders superior to Active Orders? The Lord declared that Mary's was the best part, and she is the type of the contemplative life.[491] Religious Orders differ from one another primarily according to the ends they have in view, but secondarily according to the works they practise. And since one thing cannot be said to be superior to another save by reason of the differences between them, it will follow that the superiority of …
St. Thomas Aquinas—On Prayer and The Contemplative Life

Christian Perfection
Definition of perfection: Unblemished, blameless, pure. We are commanded to be perfect. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."--Matt. 5:48. "For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you."--2 Cor. 13:9, 11. "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, …
J. W. Byers—Sanctification

The Christian's Fellow Man
Scripture references: Luke 10:29-37; Matthew 7:12; 5:16; Luke 12:13-15; 1 Corinthians 13; Matthew 7:3-5; 5:42-49; John 21:21, 22. MAN AND OTHER MEN The Question of Relationship.--One of the most important questions is that of the relation which a man shall hold to other men. 1. It is fundamental in every system of philosophy and religion. The answers, which are given, show their widespread practical bearing in the social, industrial and political spheres, as well as in the religious. 2. It is imperative …
Henry T. Sell—Studies in the Life of the Christian

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