 | William Wake - 1827 - 454 pages
...idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. James, iii. 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 confusion and every evil work. 12. Q. What are the positive... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...says " come from the heart," that is, from some bad disposition there. And St. James, ver. 14, 15, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom is not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish." The causes of the offences of the... | |
 | 1827 - 634 pages
...their own. Profession is not principle. " By their fruits ye shall know them." " Who is a wise man ? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom." " Easy indeed it were to reach A mansion in the courts above, If watery floods and fluent speech, Might... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...brethren, bear olive-berries, either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works, with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and... | |
 | John Wesley - 1826 - 420 pages
...it will bring glorious interest ; yea, and such as will be accumulating to all eternity. 6. Who then is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you ! Let him resolve this day, this hour, this moment, the Lord assisting him, to choose in all the preceding particulars... | |
 | Edward Craig - 1828 - 378 pages
...fellow. " Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet waters and bitter?" " A good man shews out of a good conversation, his works with meekness...envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie riot against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.... | |
 | 1825 - 688 pages
...then lei us refute the error by living better than those who embrace it. This is St. James's advice : Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among...conversation, his works with meekness of wisdom. But, adds the apostle, if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 pages
...brethren, bear olive berries ? either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among...good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 17* LESSON LXXXVI. Indolence. — DENNIE. HE who surveys the paths of active life, will find them »o... | |
 | William Phoebus - 1828 - 132 pages
...it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, (Phil. Hi. 20, 21) ; and the Apostle James adds, " who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among...conversation, his works with meekness of wisdom," (St. James iii. 13) ; and our Lord says. " Let your communication be yea, yea, nay. nay, for whatsoever... | |
 | John Ryland - 1828 - 534 pages
...purposes for which every truth was revealed, in a secret walk with God, and a consistent demeanor. " Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom." XCI. ON DEVOTEDNESS TO CHRIST.... | |
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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. 
