| 1823 - 154 pages
...knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and He not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but his earthly, sensual, devilish.... | |
| Francis Barnett - 1823 - 372 pages
...intellectual riches shews, that it is " earthly, sensual, devilish ;" and an apostle has assured us, that " where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." " As few endowments were necessary to judge, so few have been supposed necessary to compose a novel; and... | |
| Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,... | |
| 1824 - 172 pages
...Rev. Ğu. 15. soever loveth and maketh a lie," Again, " But if ye have bitter envyings and JameĞ mu strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." — " From whence come James iv. i, wars among you ? come they not hence, even of the lusts of the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Christian life - 1824 - 296 pages
...speaking of that wisdom which is from above, says, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearis, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom...earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife" are, "there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom " which " is from above, is first pure,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Christian life - 1824 - 340 pages
...v. 22, 23. The Apostle James, speaking of that wisdom which is from above, says, " If ye have hitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and...truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but M earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife" are, " there is confusion, and every evil... | |
| Bible - 1824 - 462 pages
...knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and... | |
| John Mason - Christian life - 1824 - 340 pages
...dirt ;' Isaiah Ivii. 20. — 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 restless and uneasy, agitated to and fro with the violent... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 450 pages
...sin is death. SERMON XVII. ON THE WICKEDNESS AND MISERY OF ENVY AND CONTENTION. JAMES, iii. 16. — For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. THE world was originally created in great beauty and order ; but the disobedience of its inhabitants... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well. — James ii. 8. Gal. v. 13 — 15. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, &c. This wisdom descendeth not from above, &c. — James iii. 14-16. 1 Pet. ii. 1. Seeing ye have purified... | |
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