Thirty Years' Correspondence Between John Jebb -- and Alexander Knox--, Volume 1Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835 |
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Page 86 - We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not : but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Page 25 - If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Page 21 - For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Page 21 - SPIRIT, . . . love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Page 23 - GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed : Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give ; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Page 23 - That he would grant unto us, that we, being delivered out of the hand of our - enemies, might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Page 66 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 24 - If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but, if ye, through the spirit, mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Page 153 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 335 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.