Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry… Dr. Holland writes thus of one of our great modern toilers: "As I think of my old associate he seems to me like a great golden vessel, rich in colour and roughly embossed, filled with the elixir of life, which he poured out without the slightest stint for the consumption of this people. We did not know when we tasted it and found it so charged with zest that we were tasting heart's blood. A pale man, weary and nervous, crept home at three o'clock in the morning, and while thousands were bending eagerly over the results of his night's labour he was tossing and trying to sleep. Yet this work was the joy of his life." Parallel Verses KJV: But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. |
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