“For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.”
Bible
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, / And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.”
“Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; / Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.”
“By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.”
“And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: / For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.”
“The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: / Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; / Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”
