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ACTS.--"After what manner I have been with you" (Acts 20: 18).
EPISTLE.--"Ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake" (I Thess. 1: 5).
ACTS.--"Serving the Lord" (Acts 20: 19).
With the exception of the statement of our Lord Himself, "Ye cannot serve God and
Mammon", douleuo is used exclusively by the Apostle for service unto the Lord. There
are six occurrences in his epistles which, together with Acts 20: 19, make seven in all.
EPISTLE.--"Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord" (Rom. 12: 11 and see also Rom. 14: 18;
16: 18; Eph. 6: 7; Col. 3: 24; and I Thess. 1: 9).
ACTS.--"Serving the Lord with humility of mind" (Acts 20: 19).
EPISTLE.--"In lowliness of mind let each esteem other" (Phil. 2: 3).
Paul is responsible for six out of the total seven occurrences of tapeinophrosune, "humility of
mind".
ACTS.--"With many tears and temptations" (Acts 20: 19).
EPISTLE.--"My temptation which was in my flesh" (Gal. 4: 14).
ACTS.--"How I kept back nothing that was profitable" (Acts 20: 20).
EPISTLE.--"But if any man draw back" (Heb. 10: 38).
ACTS.--"How I kept back nothing that was profitable" (Acts 20: 20).
EPISTLE.--"All things are not expedient" (I Cor. 6: 12).
There are sixteen occurrences of sumphero "expedient" or "profitable" in the N.T.: eight occur
in the Gospels and Acts 19: 19, and the other eight exclusively in Paul's epistles.
ACTS.--"The Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city" (Acts 20: 24).
EPISTLE.--"The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit" (Rom. 8: 16).
ACTS.--"That I may finish my course" (Acts 20: 24).
EPISTLE.--"I have finished my course" (II Tim. 4: 7).
These are the only occurrences of dromos, "course" except that in Acts 13: 25, where, again,
Paul is speaking. The use of the verb teleioo, "to perfect", in the sense of finishing a
race, is characteristic of the Apostle's language, especially in Phil. 3: and the Epistle to
the Hebrews.
ACTS.--"Over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you (tithemi) overseers" (Acts 20: 28).
EPISTLE.--"Whereunto I am appointed (tithemi) a preacher" (II Tim. 1: 11).
ACTS.--"Not sparing the flock" (Acts 20: 29).
EPISTLE.--"If God spared not the natural branches" (Rom. 11: 21).
There are seven occurrences of pheidomai, "to spare", in Paul's epistles. Elsewhere it is found
only in Acts 20: 29 or II Pet. 2: 4, 5).
ACTS.--"Therefore watch and remember" (Acts 20: 31).
EPISTLE.--"For ye remember brethren our labour" (I Thess. 2: 9).
Mnemoneuo.--This is a word very characteristic of the apostle Paul. He uses it again in
Acts 20: 35, seven times in the Church Epistles and three times in Hebrews.
ACTS.--"Therefore . . . . . remember . . . . . night and day" (Acts 20: 31).
EPISTLE.--"With labour and travail night and day" (II Thess. 3: 8).
The association of night and day as an indication of continuance is a characteristic expression
of Paul. He uses the combination seven times (Acts 26: 7; I Thess. 2: 9; 3: 10;
II Thess. 3: 8; I Tim. 5: 5; II Tim. 1: 3). The other epistles do not use the expression.
ACTS.--"I ceased not to warn to every one" (Acts 20: 31).
EPISTLE.--"Warning every man, and teaching every man" (Col. 1: 28).
This word noutheteo, "to warn", occurs in seven passages, all of them in Paul's epistles. It
occurs nowhere else except in Acts 20: 31, where it is Paul who is speaking.
ACTS.--"An inheritance among all them are sanctified" (Acts 20: 32).
EPISTLE.--"The inheritance of the saints in light" (Col. 1: 12).