 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 528 pages
...merely, but of necessity; for God has warned us that we shall give account of" every idle word, and, that by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned.* Let us then be utterly purposed that our mouth shall not offend." Let our tongue be as choice silver,... | |
 | 1863 - 904 pages
...our silence and our speech, each in its own way, irffi contribute to His glory, who h as declared, by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned. The grace of speech requires for its perfection the grace of silence. Best FOB the highest purposes... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 pages
...that shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. vi. 10. And our blessed Saviour hath told us, that by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned. To which I will add the counsel given us by the wise man, refrain your tongue from backbiting, for... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1824 - 348 pages
...the sincerest, and the most unoffending, and the most unwearied in well-doing of all the characters that had met their observation, do you not perceive...what we are sure is done by many in their obscure imaginaz 2 tions upon this subject, we ought not to liken the sin against the Holy Ghost to the spell... | |
 | Henry Tattam - 1825 - 200 pages
...all uncharitableness. May our conr versation be such as becometh the gospel of Christ, knowing that by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned. Grant that the fruits of thy blessed Spirit may appear and abound in us ; and may we be filled with... | |
 | 874 pages
...seeing that for every idle word a nun shall speak, ho must give an account in the day of judgment, forty our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall tea* demned ; believing, ana declaring this belief, that a very loose ami wanton conversation was a... | |
 | 1828 - 318 pages
...eyes ;' for a maxim to be engraven on your hearts, and of which you are never to lose sight, — ' by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned ; and, at the last great day, every idle word must be accounted for.' GOVERNMENT OF THE PASSIONS. G.... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1828 - 390 pages
...is, to speak with an habitual remembrance, and with the feeling always strong in our hearts, that " by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned." It is, to converse with the conviction always strong in our minds, " thou, God, hearest me"! It is,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1830 - 484 pages
...them, just because it is out of the abundance of the hear! that the mouth speaketh, and out of the enl humours of the heart, that the man bringeth forth...belongs to it, from some infernal charm with which the utterance of mere language is darkly and unaccountably impregnated. But knowing that every denunciation... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 604 pages
...account even of every idle word that we speakf," and much more of every uncharitable word ; and that " by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned *."] In reflecting on this subject, we cannot but observe, 1. In what an awful state they must be,... | |
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He tells us that it was by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned... 
