 | John Wesley Etheridge - 1836 - 256 pages
...children and their own houses. For they who have performed the office of ad eacon, will procure to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." (in) Thus the apostles required that the primitive deacons of Jerusalem should be "men of honest report,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alcoholism - 1836 - 122 pages
...with too near an approach 1 I know* that " they who have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." But I read nowhere, in history sacred or profane, that it purchases the privilege of boldly making... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...children and their own houses well. For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesns. [l Tim, iii. 1-1s. A bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God 1 not self-willed, not... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 630 pages
...husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. See verse 2. III. 13. Purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. Do justly obtain the favour and honour, to be preferred to the higher offices in the Church ; and do,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1837 - 512 pages
...seems to be taught by St. Paul. " They that have exercised the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. iii, 13.) The good degree, Kahov paB,iov, seems to refer to a higher grade of office, and of... | |
 | 1837 - 556 pages
...children and their own houses well." 13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great, boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly : 15 But if I tarry long, that... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 624 pages
...increase of courage and holy boldness, in the profession of the Gospel of Christ. III. 13. Purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. How thou oughtest to carry thyself in this great family of God, the Church of the Living God; which... | |
 | John Hothersall Pinder - Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...children and their own houses well. For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly : but if I tarry long, that thou mayeat... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 328 pages
...children and their own houses well. For they, that have used the office of a deacon well, . purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. IX. False Teachers. MAT. 7 : 15. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but... | |
 | Henry Bannerman, Henry Grew - Baptism - 1838 - 238 pages
...discharge of the duties of this office. ' For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.' We learn, it is the duty of the brethren to select deacons ; (Acts vi. 13) and that they are to be... | |
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For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 
