Isaiah 61:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Named

Ye shall eat

Acts 11:28

Romans 15:26

Bible References

Named

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

who hath made us kings and priests to his God and father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

and hast made us kings and priests unto our God: and we shall reign on the earth."

happy and holy are they that have part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God, and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye have received faith according to the divine gifts imparted to each of them?

Let men consider us, as the ministers of Christ, who dispense the divine mysteries.

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

It is he then that made some, apostles: some, prophets: some, evangelists: and others, pastors, and teachers:

Ye shall eat

and one of them named Agabus foretold by the spirit, that there should be a great famine, thro' all the world: which accordingly happen'd in the reign of Claudius Cesar.

for those of Macedonia and Achaia, have thought fit to make a contribution for the poor converts at Jerusalem.