7Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle,(I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We may observe here, according to the scheme mentioned in the contents, the apostle’s exhortations, I. Concerning our duty to God, We see what is godliness. 1. It is to surrender ourselves to God, and so to lay a good foundation. We must first give our own selves unto the Lord, 2 Cor. 8:5. This is here pressed as the spring of all duty and obedience, Rom. 12:1 , 2 . Man consists of body and soul,…
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