31That 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;
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And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-33)Here we have, I. St. Paul’s desire of a share in the prayers of the Romans for him, expressed very earnestly, Rom. 15:30-32. Though Paul was a great apostle, yet he begged the prayers of the meanest Christians, not here only, but in several other of the epistles. He had prayed much for them, and this he desires as the return of his kindness. Interchanging prayers is an excellent token of the inter…
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