19But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. …
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; …
Commentary
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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