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   1 Thessalonians 3:7

   Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

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   Philemon 1:14

   But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

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   2 Corinthians 6:4

   But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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   Acts 15:28

   For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

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   Galatians 2:3

   But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

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   Acts 26:11

   And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.

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   2 Corinthians 9:5

   Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.

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   2 Corinthians 11:23

   Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

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   2 Timothy 3:10

   ¶ But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

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    2 Timothy 3:12

    Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

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    Mark 6:45

    ¶ And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.

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    Galatians 2:14

    But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

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    Acts 28:19

    But when the Jews spake against [it], I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

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    Galatians 6:12

    As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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    2 Corinthians 12:10

    Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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    2 Corinthians 9:7

    Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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    Matthew 14:22

    ¶ And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

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    Luke 14:23

    And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled.

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    Acts 13:46

    Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

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    Philippians 2:25

    Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

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    Titus 3:14

    And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

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    1 Corinthians 9:16

    For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

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    2 Corinthians 4:8

    ¶ [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;

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    2 Corinthians 11:27

    In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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    Acts 16:3

    Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

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    Galatians 5:2

    Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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    Galatians 5:6

    For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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    2 Corinthians 1:4

    Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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    Romans 8:35

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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    Romans 8:36

    As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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    1 Corinthians 4:11

    Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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    1 Corinthians 4:12

    And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

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    Philippians 4:11

    Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.

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    Philippians 4:12

    I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

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    Romans 5:3

    And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

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    Romans 5:4

    And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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    1 Corinthians 9:20

    And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

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    1 Corinthians 9:21

    To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

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    2 John 1:4

    I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

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    Joel 2:17

    Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God?

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    1 Corinthians 3:5

    ¶ Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

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    2 Corinthians 12:12

    Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

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    2 Corinthians 3:6

    ¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

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    2 Corinthians 2:13

    I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

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    1 Peter 5:2

    Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

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    1 Peter 5:3

    Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

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    1 Chronicles 29:17

    I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

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    2 Corinthians 11:28

    Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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    1 Corinthians 4:9

    For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

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    1 Corinthians 4:13

    Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, [and are] the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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    2 Corinthians 7:6

    Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

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    2 Corinthians 7:7

    And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

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    1 Thessalonians 3:8

    For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

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    1 Thessalonians 3:9

    For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

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    Revelation 1:9

    ¶ I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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    James 5:7

    Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

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    James 5:10

    Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

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    Revelation 3:10

    Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

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    1 Corinthians 4:1

    ¶ Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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    Acts 15:24

    Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment:

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    Philemon 1:8

    ¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

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    Philemon 1:9

    Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

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    2 Corinthians 1:24

    Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

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    2 Corinthians 8:12

    For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not.

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    1 Corinthians 9:17

    For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.

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    Acts 17:4

    And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

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    Acts 17:10

    ¶ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of the Jews.

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    2 Timothy 2:24

    And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,

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    Acts 20:34

    Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

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    1 Timothy 4:6

    ¶ If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

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    Hebrews 12:1

    ¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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    Colossians 1:24

    Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

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    Romans 16:10

    Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' [household].

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    Romans 14:18

    For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.

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    1 Thessalonians 2:3

    For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

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    1 Thessalonians 2:11

    As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [doth] his children,

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    Acts 20:23

    Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

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    Acts 20:24

    But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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    1 Thessalonians 5:14

    Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men].

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    1 Corinthians 9:11

    If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

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    Romans 5:8

    But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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    1 Thessalonians 3:2

    And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

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    1 Thessalonians 3:3

    That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

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    Acts 9:16

    For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

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    Luke 21:19

    In your patience possess ye your souls.

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    2 Timothy 4:5

    But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

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    2 Corinthians 4:17

    For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;

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    Colossians 1:11

    Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

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    2 Timothy 1:8

    Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

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    2 Corinthians 7:11

    For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

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    Joel 1:9

    The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.

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    Acts 2:22

    Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

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    2 Corinthians 11:9

    And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].

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    Isaiah 61:6

    But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

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    1 Timothy 6:11

    But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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    1 Timothy 2:15

    Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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    2 Corinthians 4:2

    But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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    Psalms 110:3

    Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

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    2 Corinthians 7:13

    Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

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     2 Corinthians 2:17

     For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

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     1 Corinthians 9:7

     Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

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     2 Corinthians 12:11

     ¶ I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

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     Acts 10:24

     And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.

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     1 Corinthians 12:22

     Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

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     Philippians 1:24

     Nevertheless to abide in the flesh [is] more needful for you.

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     Luke 21:23

     But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

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     1 Corinthians 7:26

     I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

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     Hebrews 9:16

     For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

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     Hebrews 7:12

     For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

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