9Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
Have we not power to eat and to drink? …
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-15)The apostle having commended their obedience for the time past, and mentioned his confidence in their obedience for the time to come, proceeds to give them commands and directions to some who were faulty, correcting some things that were amiss among them. Observe, The best society of Christians may have some faulty persons among them, and some things that ought to be reformed. Perfection is not to…
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