Bible Dictionary: Servants: when Good are Brethren Beloved in the Lord

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Philemon 1:16
Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
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Innocent, Bishop, to Presbyters and Deacons, and to all the Clergy ...
... to supply to those who are in distress, in order that the servants of Christ ... 967]
For it were more fitting, most honoured brethren, that good deeds should ...
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Glorious Predestination
... angels, for what are they but ministering spirits, servants in our ... Now, brethren,
this word I say and send you home ... and to do according to his own good pleasure ...
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Epistle xxxiii. To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of ...
... There is nothing in which a confessor can do more good to the brethren than that ...
5. In such servants the Lord rejoices; in confessors of this kind He glories ...
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Epistle Li. To the Brethren Going to England (Angliam) .
... To the Brethren going to England (Angliam) [1666 ... servant of the servants of God,
to the servants of our ... had been better not to have begun what is good than to ...
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John Chapter xv. 14, 15
... 3. Let us, brethren, let us understand, and may the Lord ... that enableth us to serve
so as not to be servants. ... doeth; and who, when he doeth any good thing, is ...
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Epistle xx. Celerinus to Lucian.
... This, however, continually happens to the servants of God ... whom themselves you will
hear of their good works,"that ... to all my lords, your brethren the confessors ...
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The Lord Has Heard those Supplications which You, My Best Beloved ...
... the supplications of the rest of our brethren, who by ... aid has lifted His prostrate
and afflicted servants from the ... of those men I have thought good to publish ...
/.../lactantius/of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap i the lord has.htm

Letter iii. --For 331. Easter-Day xvi Pharmuthi; iii Id. April ...
... 5. But the faithful and true servants of the ... Let us then, my beloved brethren, celebrate
with thanksgiving the ... and fastings, and discipline, and good works, we ...
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Letter xi. --For 339. Coss. Constantius Augustus ii, Constans I ...
... Cain; but that, like faithful and good servants of the ... with the joy which arises
from good works, during ... may have health in the Lord, I pray, brethren beloved. ...
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Thirdly, for Thy Actions.
... A deserved good name for anything but for godliness, lasts little ... Christians, not
as thy servants, but above servants, brethren beloved in the Lord (Philem. ...
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