| Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...seldom healed without a scar." Study also the divine art of contentment. It is a divine injunction, " Be content with such things as ye have ; for he hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."* And what is more reasonable than to acquiesce with his will, to... | |
| Baptists - 1829 - 610 pages
...22. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus, Phil. iv. 10. Let your conversation be without covetousness, and...such things as ye have ; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, Heb. xiii. 6. VI. LIBERALITY WILL BE REWARDED. — God is not unrighteous... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...God's good providence, and his fatherly care. To that purpose St. Paul exhorts us in express words, " Let your conversation be without covetousness, and...such things as ye have ; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," Heb. xiii. That he might beget in us an aversion to this infamous... | |
| Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...commandment doth require, in reference to ourselves, full contentment with our own condition. Heb. xiii. 5, Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have. ' Q. 2. Wherein doth contentment with our own condition consist ? A. Contentment with our own... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...wiped away. 146. "Exod. xx. 17. 147. b Heb. liii. 5. Let your convenation be -without covetouwi**; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I thec. 1 Tim. vi. 6. But godliness with contentment is great gain. cjob xxri. 29. If I rejoiced at the... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 586 pages
...whore-mongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and he content with such things as ye have : for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thce. 1 'H Qiba&etyia 2 TJJJ ema Taurus yap tive$ %£viOa.VTe$ ay05 a»s... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 594 pages
...and the bed undefiled: but whore-mongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation he without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have : for lie hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. GREEK TEXT. 1 'H <j)i%,a.8e%,(})ia, 2 T>75... | |
| Henry Venn - Christian life - 1811 - 464 pages
...the influence of the Holy Ghost, teaches us no less forcibly that the desire of riches is avarice. " Let your conversation be without covetousness, and...such things as ye have ; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," Heb. xiii. On the contrary, he declares defilement of mind and... | |
| John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 506 pages
...inconsistent with any spark of saving grace. See Ephes. v, 5; 1 Tim. i, 10; Rev. xxi, 8; xxi, 15, VERSES s, o. Let your conversation be without co-vetousness, and...with such things as ye have, for he hath said, I will never leave thee nor ftrsake thee; so that we may bdldly say, the Lord it my Aelfier, and I will not... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...that lives by faith, " I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee ?" The whole sentence runs thus, " Let your conversation be without covetousness, and...such things as ye have ; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," Heb. xiii. 5. True ; provided " your coniversation be without... | |
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