1 CORINTHIANS 16:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.”
For they refreshed my spirit and yours also. Such people deserve recognition — Stephanas and companions have anapsyxis (refreshed, restored spirit) to Paul and by proxy to the Corinthians. Their service merits honor and commendation.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 16:18
“For they refreshed my spirit and yours.” Thus, since it was natural for them to be greatly irritated against these persons, for it was they who had come and showed him all about the division, inasmuch as by them also they had written the questions about the virgins, and about the married persons:— mark how he softened them down; both in the beginning of his Epistle by saying, “For it has been signified unto me by them which are of the house of Chloe;” thus at once…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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