Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 17–18. Obey your prelates, and so forth Join the sacrifice of obedience to your bishops and pastors, whom God has placed over you, who must render an account even of your souls, that is whether they have discharged their duty towards you, and whether it be not by their neglect that you have remained in your sins. Follow their commands and instructions, with such a ready willingness, that you do not contristate them, but that you may be a subject of comfort and joy to them, in their heavy and dangerous employments.—Fail not to pray for me, who am such a minister of God. Witham.