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Meanwhile, if a believer has any widows depending on him, he should undertake their support, leaving the church free to support the widows who are really destitute. (1 Timothy 5, 16)
and to all the church that is in his household, to our dear sister Appia, Archippus, who fights the same battle with ourselves, and the rest; (Philemon 1, 2)
I will proclaim thy renown, he says, to my brethren; with the church around me I will praise thee;✻ (Hebrews 2, 12)
Remember those early days, when the light first came to you, and the hard probation of suffering you went through. (Hebrews 10, 32)
Wait, then, brethren, in patience for the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer looks forward to the coveted returns of his land, yet waits patiently for the early and the late rains to fall before they can be brought in.✻ (James 5, 7)
Is one of you sick? Let him send for the presbyters of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord’s name. (James 5, 14)
The church here in Babylon, united with you by God’s election, sends you her greeting; so does my son, Mark.✻ (1 Peter 5, 13)
They have borne public witness before the church of thy charity, and thou wilt do well to set them forward on their journey in such a manner as befits God’s service; (3 John 1, 6)
I might have sent this message to the church at large, were it not that Diotrephes, ever eager to take a leading part among them, refuses to acknowledge us, (3 John 1, 9)
If I should pay you a visit, be sure I will tax him with his ill conduct. He maligns us with his foolish gossip; is not that enough for him, without refusing to acknowledge our brethren, and putting restraint on those who would, by expelling them from the church? (3 John 1, 10)
To the angel of the church at Ephesus write thus: A message to thee from him who bears the seven stars in his right hand, and walks amidst the seven golden candlesticks: (Revelation 2, 1)
And to the angel of the church at Smyrna write thus: A message to thee from him, who is before all and at the end of all, who underwent death and now is alive: (Revelation 2, 8)
