18Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
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Brethren, pray for us.
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)Here, I. The apostle recommends himself, and his fellow-sufferers, to the prayers of the Hebrew believers (Heb. 13:18): “ Pray for us ; for me and Timothy” (mentioned Heb. 13:23), “and for all those of us who labour in the ministry of the gospel.” 1. This is one part of the duty which people owe to their ministers. Ministers need the prayers of the people; and the more earnestly the people pray fo…
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