...behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation;) giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things...patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge,...

...sailors for Christ, as though God, &c. — 2 Cor. v. 11. 14. 18—20. Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things...ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in necessities, in distresses, &c. by pureness, by knowledge, &c. — 2 Cor. vi. 3—10. We have wronged...

...temporary, but those which are not seen are eternal." (2 Cor. iv, 18.) " Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed : But in all things...ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience," &c. (vi, & — 10.) " For I through the law am dead to the law, that I may live unto God. I am crucified...

...patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves -f- ; giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed, but in all things...ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience ; and if it should again be required of his ministers, in afflictions, in ntces» ... ' - - - • -...

...their sacred office the Apostle Paul speaks of himself, and his colleagues in the apostleship, as " giving no offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving themselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, — by pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering,...

...their apostleship, and of their claim to the office of the ministry. " In all things," says Paul, " approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much...patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes," &c. (2 Cor. vi. 3). Again; — "Are they ministers of Christ? I am more;" and how does...

...salvation.] 3 Giving no offence in any thing, thai the ministry be not blamed : 4 But in all thing» approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much...patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, о In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings ; в By pureness,...

...Paul was " in fastings often g;" and this was a characteristic note of the ministers of the gospel, " in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience — in watchings, in fastings11 :" and when Paul and Barnabas were ordained apostles of the uncircumcision,...

...preached, and patterns of the purity which they recommended. In all things they F 2 approved themselves " as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchiugs, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge,...

...— go forward in the exercise of your high and holy calling, " approving yourselves in all things the ministers of God; in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in labours; through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report; as unknown, yet well known;...