 | John Charles Ryle - Bible - 1880 - 516 pages
...meekness. A bitter teacher is not worth a penny. This is what St. Paul requires when he says, ' The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle to all men.' (2 Tim. ii. 24.) All should be in gentleness : teaching in gentleness. Wherefore ? Because, if gentleness... | |
 | William Shaw (religious writer) - 1882 - 160 pages
...for self-examination, and whatever conclusion he arrives at, it will be clear to his mind that "the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will... | |
 | 1881 - 570 pages
...attributes, the answer is not so difficult as at first it may appear. The law of the case is clear : " The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose," from whatever motive. This is the... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1883 - 606 pages
...entrance ; and we return home saddened at having wrought no deliverance, but remembering that "the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." So men did to our Lord... | |
 | Herbert Field Blackett - Hinduism - 1884 - 196 pages
...entrance; and we return home saddened at having wrought no deliverance, but remembering that " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." So men did to our Lord;... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1887 - 648 pages
...the good Shepherd. Long afterwards the apostle could remind one of his present colleagues that " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" (2 Tim. ii. 24 — 26).... | |
 | Joseph Tuckerman - Sermons, American - 1888 - 388 pages
...portion. In presiding in the church, the apostolic injunction is, not to lord it over God's heritage. The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men. Reclaim the wanderer, and them that are out of the way, if possible, by kindness and 46 tenderness,... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - Presbyterian Church - 1893 - 1088 pages
...consistent member of the Mission church and at last died in the triumph of the Christian faith. And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that oppose themselves.— 2 Tim. ii : 25. Two... | |
 | Alexander MacKennal - Kingdom of God - 1900 - 152 pages
...wits to defend their errors, and oppose the truth, and hjndereth usually their information. And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, &c. Therefore I am most in judgment for a learning or a teaching way of converse. In all companies... | |
 | Arno Clemens Gaebelein - Bible - 1903 - 320 pages
...as the One who put His trust in Jehovah? And thus it is written of the servant, His follower, "the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all." (2 Tim. ii:24). Gentleness as foretold was to be found in Him. How gentle and loving He must have been... | |
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And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves... 
