| George Washington Bethune - Christian life - 1839 - 228 pages
...patience in tribulation, the basis of the rest. So St. James also : " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." Here patience... | |
| Robert Porten Beachcroft - 1840 - 394 pages
...trying circumstances the Christian may rejoice. My brethren, says St, James, " Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience ; and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." We are... | |
| John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...temptation, or trial, He willeth our brethren, count it all joy higher spiritual improvement, when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh * Patience bringeth its own sweet patience. * But let patience recompence. have Iter perfect work, that ye may... | |
| John Clarke Crosthwaite - 1840 - 568 pages
...for when I am weak, then am I strong 2 ." " My brethren," saith St. James, " count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." " Blessed is the 1 Rom. v. 3. "2 Cor. xii. 9, 10. man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried,... | |
| Christian Ludwig Couard - Christian life - 1841 - 334 pages
...strange thing happened unto you." In like manner, St James writes, " My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." And in one of our church hymns we sing, " Upon the cross were we redeemed, The cross the Christian's... | |
| King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1841 - 444 pages
...made whole from that very hour. THE EPISTLE. James i. 2 — 15. MY brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any... | |
| Harvey Newcomb - Christian life - 1841 - 416 pages
...came out of the furnace greatly purified. The apostle James says, " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." If the children of God were never tempted, they would never have an opportunity to prove the sincerity... | |
| Church of England - Reformation - 1841 - 490 pages
...greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad. My brethren, count it for an exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith gendcreth patience : and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking... | |
| 1842 - 488 pages
...unto them which are exercised thereby," Heb. xii. 1 1. " Count it all joy," saith the apostle, " when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience," Jas. i. 23. And now, reader, again let me ask thee, Dost thou know what it is to behold " the beauty... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. — Heb. xii. 12. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, &c. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown... | |
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