 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 strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth...  The Absurdities of Methodism - Pāgina 259per Samuel Pelton - 1822 - 268 pāginesVisualitzaciķ completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pāgines
...bitter envying, and strife in your hearts : glory not, &c. This wisdom descendeth not from above, &c. for where envying and strife is, there is confusion...evil work: but the wisdom that is from above, is, &c. peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, &c. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace... | |
 | 1824 - 172 pāgines
...JameĢ mu strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth : this wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish...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... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1824 - 450 pāgines
...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....strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work/' As we have no direct authority to persecute, so we have no prescription, or rules authorized by custom.... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pāgines
...bitter envying, and strife in your hearts: glory not, &c. This wisdom descendeth not from above, &c. for where envying and strife is, there is confusion...evil work: but the wisdom -that is from above, is, &c. peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, &c. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace... | |
 | John Mason - 1824 - 340 pāgines
...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 pāgines
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1824 - 296 pāgines
...envying and strife in your hearis, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is 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,... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pāgines
...evidently tending to our peace and comfort even hi this life; for, as the Apostle James tells us, " where envying and' strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." Reflections of this nature were brought forcibly to my mind a few days ago, on paying a visit to some... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pāgines
...were affectionate and kind towards one another and towards their children. An apostle tells us that ' where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.' Now, as far as I ever knew, there was very little either of envying or strife in that poor family ;... | |
 | John McDowell - 1825 - 560 pāgines
...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....strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." And as habitual hatred excludes from the kingdom of heaven, so also does an unforgiving temper. In... | |
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