 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 452 pages
...against the truth : as if any such zeal, any thing contrary to love, could consist with true wisdom. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where bitter zeal and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom which is from above,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...»5. . . Ca) If 'ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (ID) Whosoever is angry with his brether without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment. (*) Blessed... | |
 | William Melmoth - Apologetics - 1812 - 410 pages
...mire and dirt. Is. Ivii. £0. He is a stranger to peace, and all the blessed fruits and effects of it; for, where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. James iii. 16. His mind is continually rest.? less and uneasy, agitated to and fro Avith the violent... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...knowledge among you ? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,...truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is parthty, sensual, devilish V VI. It may be sufficient if I bring before you one other motive to the... | |
 | Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...inculcated by the gospel ; 'but .that it proverbially betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish;...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. 184 Reflections on [CHAP. viu. After we have read his sermon on the... | |
 | Alexander M'Leod - Presbyterian Church - 1813 - 166 pages
...us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James 3. 14. 16. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. For where envying and strife is, there is eonfusion, and every evil work. ffj Psal. 112, 9. He hath... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...26.Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James iii. M But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the trulh. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. x Rom. vii.... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1813 - 484 pages
...language of the apostle, who describes it as " sensual and devilish ;" be« cause, as he observes, " where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." In opposition to this, he describes the wisdom that is derived from a superior source, as " first pure,... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1813 - 502 pages
...severity. However badly they may judge in other things, they will readily deeide with the apostle ; that " where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work," James ii. 13. The world judges rightly in this, it being utterly impossible for the grace of God, in... | |
 | Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 pages
...16. But if ye have hitter emying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against ihe truth. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil wOck. Cf I Psaf. 112, 9. He hath di». persed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness endureth... | |
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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 
