1 Corinthians 9:15-16 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done to me… Dr. Parker, in an address to local preachers, City Temple, June 1,1885, said: "A lady asked me the other day, 'What is your hobby?' Said I, 'Preaching.' 'But apart from that?' said she. 'There is nothing apart from that,' I replied. All poetry, all beauty, all nature, all love, all history, the whole future are included in preaching. The preacher should never be away from his work, and never can be if his spirit is what it ought to be. Unless you make this preaching the very crown of your lives you will be very poor preachers." Parallel Verses KJV: But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. |
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