4But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
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These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. …
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; …
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Having seen the church’s struggles with her enemies, and triumphed with her in her victories, we now come to take a view of the administration of her affairs at home; and here we have, I. An unhappy disagreement among some of the church-members, which might have been of ill consequence, but was prudently accommodated and taken up in time (Acts 6:1): When the number of the disciples (for so Christi…
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