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Marvin Vincent's Word Studies has been treasured by generations of pastors and laypeople. Commenting on the meaning, derivation, and uses of significant Greek words and idioms, Vincent helps you incorporate the riches of the New Testament in your sermons or personal study without spending hours on tedious language work.

matured Christians. Them that are perfect (τοῖς τελείοις). American Rev., them that are full-grown. Paul’s term for matured Christians. See Eph. 4:13, where a perfect (τέλειον) man is contrasted with children (νήπιοι, ver. 14). So 1 Cor. 14:20: “In malice children, in understanding men (lit., perfect);” Philip. 3:15. “This wisdom is the Christian analogue to philosophy in the ordinary sense of the word” (Meyer), and the perfect to whom he delivered it would recognize it as such. That come to
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