Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Men that have hazarded х paradedookosin (G3860)] - literally, 'rendered up,' as in will they did, Their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Noble testimony to those beloved men! It was doubtless prompted more immediately by the thrilling narrative to which they had just listened from their own lips (Acts 15:12); but such a reference to the sacrifices they had made for Christ was judiciously inserted in this Letter, in order to give them, along with their own deputies, the highest weight with those to whom they wrote.