 | 1802 - 374 pages
...and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven : whereof I Paul am made a minister: 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions the of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church; 25 .Whereof I am made a miinvisible... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven : whereof I Paul am made a minister: 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill...Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church ; 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...that I may have fellowship with him in his sufferings beingmade conformable unto hisdeath, and filling up that, which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the church." It is by expressions so charitable, and by actions, which demonstrate the sincerity .of those... | |
 | 1845 - 786 pages
...moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, .... whereof I Paul am made a minister. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill...Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the church. Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Sermons, American - 1805 - 398 pages
...and of his zeal in the common cause. To the Colossians he says, to the same purpose, Ch. I. 24. "I rejoice in my sufferings for you, " and fill up that...Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which " is the church." As if a certain portion of suffering . had been necessary to establish Christianity and as... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...care only, but pain too: I now rejoice, snith he, in my sufferings for you ; and Jill tip that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake, which is the Church; Col. i. 24. If what we ilo or suffer be not with relation to the common good, we forget our... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...therefore suffers in him : thus it is then with me ; my afflictions are Christ's; and I do, in suffering, fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ, in my flesh, for his Church's sake : I. 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...them. In this respect the Apostle Paul imitated his Lord and M..sier. Philip, ii i7. " Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith,...spend and be spent for you." Christ, in his prayers, labors and sufferings for the souls of men, is represented ' as travailing in birth with them. Isai.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...in some respect, as the sufferings of Christ. Hence the apostle, speaking of his sufferings, says, Col. i. 24. " Who now rejoice in my sufferings for...behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh." To the 3ame purpose is Matth. xxv. 35. &c. I was an hungred, naked, sick, and in prison, &c. And so... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 574 pages
...Christ, are the Jewish and Gentile believers only. But any one who compares the passage in the Ephe24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill...Christ in my flesh, for his body's sake which is the church : 2s Whereof I am made a minister according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me... | |
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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... 
