 | John Seely Stone - 1844 - 640 pages
...of thy ministry :' and remember that ' 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.' Your friend and brother, ALEXANDER V. GRISWOLD." The Rev. TITUS STRONG. This letter was written in... | |
 | Gregory Godolphin - Clergy - 1844 - 260 pages
...church in Rhode Island, was a man who "used the office of a deacon well, and was purchasing to himself a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." He was highly respected as an honest man, and it had passed into a sort of proverb through the place,... | |
 | George Punchard - Congregational churches - 1844 - 354 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. These things write I untothee, hoping to come unto thee shortly : but if I tarry long, that... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 620 pages
...oilier; in which, by more than forty years' diligent and self-denying service, he " purchased to himself a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." It was his honour to have been the chief agent in establishing the sabbath-school. The band of devoted... | |
 | Thomas Manton - Bible - 1845 - 624 pages
...may speak thy word" (verse 19) ; and, " 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" (1 Tim. iii. 13). " Barnabas declared unto them how he had preached boldly to them at Damascus in the... | |
 | Bible - 1845 - 372 pages
...13 For they that have ' used a rer. 4. ' or, ministered. the office of a deacon well, * purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith • which is in Christ Jesus. » Mat. as. 21. e 2 Ti. 2. 1. in its original and proper sense, to denote a calumniator, slanderer,... | |
 | William Ives Budington - Boston (Mass.) - 1845 - 276 pages
...office-bearers in the house of God. " 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." A paper, bearing the title of " Alford Memoir," furnished by the late Joseph Tufts, Esq., of Charlestovvn,... | |
 | Lexington Historical Society (Mass.) - 1905 - 224 pages
...many years used the office of deacon well in the church of Christ in Lexington, purchased to himself a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ, who departed this life in the 86th year of his age." There are many examples of the old epitaph : Behold,... | |
 | William Phipps - Apologetics - 1906 - 300 pages
...word and doctrine." (1 Tim. v. 17.) " 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." (1 Tim. iii. 13.) (/) bishops (Gk. episkopos — an overseer). (ff ) elders (Gk. presbuteros — a... | |
 | 1906 - 652 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... | |
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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. 
