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The Touchstone of Character: Translated From the French (Classic Reprint) Frédéric Édouard Chassay No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 46 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 233 - The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth ; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will ; only in the Lord.
Page 231 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself: for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 31 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 33 - And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life, because of righteousness; but if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you.
Page 40 - For that which I do I allow not ; for what I would, -that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page 32 - Lord.) So then I myself with the mind serve the law of God ; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Page 40 - For the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin" that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Page 231 - Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife : and they shall be two in one flesh.
Page 231 - Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered himself up for it, that he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life. That he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.