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... continue in faith , and charity , and holiness , with sobriety , " prudence , and gravity . In the 3d chapter of the same Epistle , he tells us " a Christian bishop must be sober , " wise , prudent , moderate . In his second Epistle to ...
... continue in faith , and charity , and holiness , with sobriety , " prudence , and gravity . In the 3d chapter of the same Epistle , he tells us " a Christian bishop must be sober , " wise , prudent , moderate . In his second Epistle to ...
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... continue praying , " and not to faint . " " Be careful about nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication , with thanksgiving , make your request known to God . And the peace of God , which passeth all understanding , shall ...
... continue praying , " and not to faint . " " Be careful about nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication , with thanksgiving , make your request known to God . And the peace of God , which passeth all understanding , shall ...
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... continue to pray and wait , and not faint . They should look up , or look out , as they who have shot an arrow , looking to see how near it has come to the mark . We lose much of the comfort of our prayers for want of observing the ...
... continue to pray and wait , and not faint . They should look up , or look out , as they who have shot an arrow , looking to see how near it has come to the mark . We lose much of the comfort of our prayers for want of observing the ...
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... continue ; " that is , let your love be permanent . s The only other point in the Apostle's injunction to the maintenance of brotherly love that requires illustration , is the qualifying phrase , " above all things . " Some have ...
... continue ; " that is , let your love be permanent . s The only other point in the Apostle's injunction to the maintenance of brotherly love that requires illustration , is the qualifying phrase , " above all things . " Some have ...
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... continue . " " The wisdom that cometh from above , " says another Apostle , " is first pure , then peaceable , gentle , and easy to be entreated , full of mercy and good fruits , without partiality , and without hypocrisy . " " Seeing ...
... continue . " " The wisdom that cometh from above , " says another Apostle , " is first pure , then peaceable , gentle , and easy to be entreated , full of mercy and good fruits , without partiality , and without hypocrisy . " " Seeing ...
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Page 50 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office ; so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Page 232 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 485 - Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him ; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue : for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Page 345 - Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
Page 181 - Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Page 358 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 334 - Even he shall build the temple of the LORD ; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Page 52 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 291 - ... that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God...
Page 10 - Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice.