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Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
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Pray for Your Leaders
The author, like other apostolic writers, urgently requests prayer. Commentators like Spurgeon highlight a profound principle: when a congregation prays for its ministers, they are more likely to benefit from that ministry. Your prayers for your leaders can directly impact the spiritual nourishment you and your church receive.
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Hebrews
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Pray for us. This is a request which the apostle often makes on his own behalf and on behalf of his fellow laborers in the gospel. See [Re…
Honestly (καλως). Nobly, honourably. Apparently the writer is conscious that unworthy motives have been attributed to him. Cf. Pau…
19th Century
Anglican
The following verses—containing personal notices relating to the writer himself and his readers (Hebrews 13:18–19; [Reference Hebrews 1…
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Baptist
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do i…
The imperative “Pray” (GK 4667) implies a continuous activity, one that they had already been doing. “Keep praying for us” is its force. It seems t…
16th Century
Protestant
For we trust, and so on. After commending himself to their prayers, in order to encourage them to pray, he declares that he had a good…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Pray for us Who are in the ministry; your guides and governors; since the work is of so much moment, and so arduous …
We must, according to our power, give to the necessities of the souls and bodies of men: God will accept these offerings with pleasure, and will ac…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing them how to act regarding their deceased leaders—that is, by continuing in their teachings—the Apostle now shows how to act toward li…
