and now, my brethren, I recommend you to God, and to his gracious dispensation, which is able to improve you, and secure to you the inheritance with those who are sanctify'd.

I recommend to you Phebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church at Kenchrea; receive her for Christ's sake,

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.

my meaning is not, that you should be distress'd to relieve others, I only recommend an equality;

This charge, my son Timothy, I recommend to you, agreeably to the prophetic gifts heretofore conferr'd on you, by virtue of which you might carry on a successful warfare,

These things recommend and teach.

these things recommend to them, that they may be without reproach.

these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.

let those then, whom God calls to sufferings, by virtue recommend their souls to him, as to a creator, who will make good his promise.